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An app for that and every app is for that. a new study says the ability to indulge our constant need to check e-mails and play games and falling out of trees and much more, it might be bogging down our brains. research suggests that multitasks impedes short-term memory and says those who are consistently juggling jobs and dividing their attention are worse at all of them because, well, they are so easily distracted. turns out those who are constantly plugged in, so to speak, finds it harder to concentrate on books and conversations and even watching the kids. in fact, the study compares the cr...

>> yeah. >> it was one of the most extraordinary things i have seen in my life. to see a woman come out, a 48-year-old spinster in a tiny scottish village and we're all snickering and watch her do what she did and see this week in the american album chart, she's number one with her second album, two number one albums outselling lady gaga is the stuff of dreams. it is an amazing story. >> it is. given the song was "i dreamed a dream." it's magic, absolutely hair raising. >> if su son boan boyle was her dreaming "i dreamed a dream," would your dream being standing there clutching the gong, clutc...

World? geoffrey, you have won, geoffrey. is it as nerve-racking as i imagine it would be? >> i's a postmodernist experience i think, piers. because you've seen other people, you know, you know what happens. my greatest memory of walking up to receive the statue in '97 was in my brain i could see the arthur murray footsteps, you know, marked out taking me up to the podium because i'd seen other people do it on television. so you're sort of -- you're sort of preprogrammed in. everyone -- and i think, you know, there are probably only remote tribes in new guinea that don't know about this ritual....

The short-term memory is beginning begin ing to wither a little as well. all i think of now is how to get out of this interview unscathed. that's my dream. if there will be a tomorrow, somebody hopefully will be able to tell me about that. >> you will have received your star, your hollywood star. >> yes. >> what a moment. >> it is a moment. >> what would it be -- if you were to win an oscar for this, would it be the great moment of your career? is it the pinnacle? >> i don't know how much one even dare s s to contemplate, dreams on that scale, really. i don't -- no one would not love to win th...

Rehabilitation? what will they be looking for that's controlled from that side of the brain? >> many brain injuries, particularly those with entrance wounds as hers was from the front i understand, in the front lobe, which is the temporal lobe, the largest lobe of the brain. behind that, the prit parietal . and the temporal lobe, this is where our memory is seated. as far as the speech is concerned, the speech is back here farther back in the brain. so not knowing exactly the track the bullet took, depending on where the bullet went and what swelling it causes. the brain is encapsulated in bon...