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serial processing

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  1. A technique for solving problems in which a computer begins at the start and works through to the end in a linear fashion. (Compare parallel processing.)

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But the brain is not a serial processing unit; it does not proceed one by one through each of these steps.

From Scientific American

Computers may be made for parallel processing, but humans are better off serial processing.

From New York Times

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