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If you can carry out lots of mental tasks simultaneously and perform them all equally well, then you may be what psychologists have dubbed 'supertaskers'. Just 2.5% of the population have been identified by Jason Watson, a cognitive neuroscientist, at the University of Colorado as true supertaskers. Along with colleagues at the University of Utah, Watson got people to drive in a simulator whilst talking on the phone, solving maths problems AND learning lists of words. He told Claudia Hammond how the supertaskers then had a brain scan to reveal how they managed all of those tasks together. Image: Woman being presented with array of devices and demands on her time. Credit: Thinkstock