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Multiple-tasking allows each processor to switch between tasks being executed on it, without having to wait for each task to finish, but this type of "parallel" computing is not scalable with the number of jobs.
It's pretty easy to switch between tasks.
The very idea of a "desktop" with different "windows" implies a user who can switch between tasks.
In contrast, many real-world complex tasks, particularly time-critical ones, involve internally-driven multitasking in which people themselves decide when to switch between tasks.
A 2011 study of HR staff found that those who had done an eight-week mindfulness meditation course were less likely to switch between tasks and showed improved memory.
But the advantage may be different from the way many researchers have described it: as a phenomenon that helps children to develop their ability to switch between tasks and, more broadly, enhances their executive-control functions.
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They could stay on task longer and they switched between tasks less frequently.
And when it comes to qualities like sustained attention and switching between tasks effectively, bilinguals often come out ahead.
In the functional localizer scans, the participants performed both duration and orientation tasks, switching between tasks when instructed.
In the functional localizer scans, the participants performed both duration and orientation discrimination tasks, switching between tasks when instructed.
These findings suggest that switching between tasks leads to overestimations of time spent on media.
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