Listening to one person speak consumes approximately half of working memory bandwidth; attempting to listen to two people simultaneously exceeds bandwidth capacity and becomes impossible.

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Richard Cytowic

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Listening to one person speak takes up about half my bandwidth, and trying to listen to two people at once is impossible, because then we've exceeded it.

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Your brain wasn't built to hold this much information | Richard CytowicBig Think
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:39:44 PM

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