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=**The Study of How Sensory Organs Affect Brain Reasoning**=

2011-2012

 * Abstract **

The purpose of this study was to determine if a human’s senses can work at the same time, but while doing different things as well. The human brain cannot multitask, and when a human tries to, it affects their work quality and thinking process. For this experiment, volunteers were asked to do a logic puzzle while doing different things to target the senses. It was found that the strongest materials, like hot sauce and condensed milk, made an impression on the volunteers and caused them to get low scores on the logic puzzle. This is not surprising, because the volunteers did not know what to expect, and thought the worst of what they were doing. This tricked the volunteer’s brain into thinking more about the thing that was being felt, or tasted, etc. and not the actual logic puzzle.

=**Conclusion** =

The results show that the brain gets distracted when the senses are targeted specifically. The senses were doing different things at once, which the brain is not capable of doing. This is why when the senses were targeted; they slowed the brain down because the brain had to switch back and forth between them. This experiment was done to show that a human cannot multitask, and when people do try to, the quality of their work might be affected. The hypothesis was that the stronger the substance or action was (in whichever experiment), the more it affected the number of questions correctly answered. This was correct, considering that when compared to doing the test without anything, everything was affected by the variable. Some other experiments for the future would be to see if a human’s heart rate is affected when eating or drinking something, or if exercise affects the amount of logic questions correct.