You are a member of a knitting circle, and really enjoy chatting to the other members as you knit. But when you first started, you hated people talking as you were knitting you would drop stiches and have to undo what you had done! The difference can most likely be explained by:

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You are a member of a knitting circle, and really enjoy chatting to the other members as you knit. But when you first started, you hated people talking as you were knitting   you would drop stiches and have to undo what you had done! The difference can most likely be explained by:

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a change in the amount of cognitive effort and resources required as you became a more experienced knitter

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the fact that you completed an evidence-based training program, to improve your multi-tasking abilities

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the competition for mental resources between a more verbal task (talking) and a more  visual task (knitting)

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your increased expertise in the voluntary direction of your feature-based attention for mental resources between a more verbal task (talking) and a more  visual task (knitting)

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