Does Listening While Doing the Dishes Count as Learning?

Multitasking while listening isn't a yes-or-no question, and the research verdict is sharper than you'd expect. Drawing on the classic dichotic listening experiments from seventy years ago and the encoding-retrieval asymmetry studies, this book reveals a precise rule: retrieval is cheap, encoding is expensive. Your own name slips through the unattended channel about one in three times, yet a language switch goes unnoticed. The main idea survives dishwashing; the guest's name, the third example, the exact wording of that beautiful sentence do not.

You'll learn:

- Why background voices don't enter at word level

- Which tasks share the language shelf and which don't

- How divided attention preserves importance but erases texture