Be less efficient while cleaning the house by alternating tasks on different floors, so you have to go up and down the stairs more often.
In task switching blocks, subjects alternated tasks on the same stimulus type (e.g. the line versus curve tasks on SO stimuli).
In the present study, we investigated the relationship between sentence processing and implicit sequence learning in a dual-task paradigm in which the primary task was a non-linguistic task (Alternating Serial Reaction Time Task for measuring probabilistic implicit sequence learning), while the secondary task were a sentence comprehension task relying on syntactic processing.
Computer simulation shows that modular structures can arise when a network faces multiple alternating tasks [23].
This bottleneck can cause considerable interference not only in concurrent multitasking – as most bottlenecks – but also in sequential multitasking: When multiple alternating tasks need to store intermediate results, the problem state bottleneck will cause significant interference.
Data from the first four sessions were not considered (to allow monkeys to become accustomed to the alternating tasks), leaving 20 sessions of performance data (10 of scene learning, 10 of strategy implementation).
Data from the first four sessions were not considered, to allow monkeys a period of time to adjust to the alternating tasks or to become reaccustomed to testing after surgery or rest, leaving 20 sessions of performance data (10 of scene learning, 10 of strategy implementation).
These simulations indicate that estimation of the hemodynamic impulse response function is optimized when stimuli are frequently alternated between task and control states, with shorter interstimulus intervals and stimulus durations, whereas the detection of activated areas is optimized by blocked designs.
Or, blocks could be switching, in which case subjects alternated the task and/or type of information every two trials.
We call it ATACE, Alternate Task-space And Configuration-space Exploration.
