QUIRKY WORLD ... Humans would be more efficient if bird-brained

England:  Humans could be more efficient if they learnt from pigeons and stopped thinking about what they were doing, say scientists.

Switching between making a phone call and writing an email was error-prone because humans stopped doing one thing to start another.

Scientists at the University of Exeter compared a human’s ability to switch between tasks with that of pigeons’. The birds’ way of doing tasks associatively caused no decrease in accuracy, but humans made more mistakes when they switched tasks.