For me, thanks two fraternity brothers at Psi of Psi Upsilon at Hamilton College, Simon and James, I have found that the plasticity of the braon allows one to train themselves to muti-task.
It's a simple, and as difficult, as driving a standard transmission or playing a piece on a musical instrument. You simply cannot "get" learning how to use a stick shift in one day, even though you may become the next A.J. Foyt. Similarly, Pat Metheny is the best guitarist in contemporary music and his playing involves extreme multi-tasking, and Pat learned at the "oid" age of 12.
And we who can drive a stick or play an instrument or enjoy playing football as that of a Peyton Manning.
Look: name *anyo...

For me, thanks two fraternity brothers at Psi of Psi Upsilon at Hamilton College, Simon and James, I have found that the plasticity of the braon allows one to train themselves to muti-task.
It's a simple, and as difficult, as driving a standard transmission or playing a piece on a musical instrument. You simply cannot "get" learning how to use a stick shift in one day, even though you may become the next A.J. Foyt. Similarly, Pat Metheny is the best guitarist in contemporary music and his playing involves extreme multi-tasking, and Pat learned at the "oid" age of 12.
And we who can drive a stick or play an instrument or enjoy playing football as that of a Peyton Manning.
Look: name *anyone* who is not familiar with 5-speed transmissions who drove on their first day as they do now. Please. Count the tasks there - I think it makes you think about the sample from which the researcher drew her conclusion.

Jorjor -

"best" was a word which ought to have been modified by a huge IN MY HUMBLE OPINION.

Reason I think Pat is better - stress on I THINK - Pat can sound and write like Robert. Robert couldn't do Metheny, and would snootily say "I wouldn't want to."

But ya know, we're talking Liszt versus Chopin I think, with FRIPP the former parallel and PAT a modern Chopin. Do you have his portfolio? The harmonic modulations (redundant, I know) are, as Chopin's were, simply out of nowhere and once heard sound as they they'd written themselves. Fripp to me is as a Liszt or Zappa or Schoenberg or Chick Corea: way way better 'chops' than Metheny, but no one with both a mastery of playing, understa...

Jorjor -

"best" was a word which ought to have been modified by a huge IN MY HUMBLE OPINION.

Reason I think Pat is better - stress on I THINK - Pat can sound and write like Robert. Robert couldn't do Metheny, and would snootily say "I wouldn't want to."

But ya know, we're talking Liszt versus Chopin I think, with FRIPP the former parallel and PAT a modern Chopin. Do you have his portfolio? The harmonic modulations (redundant, I know) are, as Chopin's were, simply out of nowhere and once heard sound as they they'd written themselves. Fripp to me is as a Liszt or Zappa or Schoenberg or Chick Corea: way way better 'chops' than Metheny, but no one with both a mastery of playing, understanding music both horizontally (melodically) and vertically (harmonies) - and being able to play as Fripp - but has Fripp ever written anything as Au Lait, covered by Bela Fleck, the greatest banjo player of pop and jazz music, IN MY HUMBLE OPINION, or The First Circle or The Fields The Sky where the crowds are, in the States, absolutely the most diverse of any artist. In 1995 I went to a show that had a crowd, that, unlike the Dave Matthews band with mixed race players but 97% white fans, Pat gets *everyone* - not too many black dudes into Fripp.

But good point. It is ONLY AN OPINION.

Have a great day,
/s/ ias