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They could stay on task longer and they switched between tasks less frequently.
Others have suggested that concurrent tasks may draw upon one attentional resource that can be rapidly switched between tasks (e.g., Alvarez et al., 2005).
ERPs were used to investigate transient changes in neural activity while subjects switched between attending to perceptually derived and self-generated information, or switched between tasks involving different stimulus response mappings.
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And when it comes to qualities like sustained attention and switching between tasks effectively, bilinguals often come out ahead.
The very idea of a "desktop" with different "windows" implies a user who can 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.
Not only could this increased connectivity make us better able to switch between tasks and monitor our own attention, but it is indicative of more effective overall management of our finite attentional resources.
You can switch between tasks using the regular task switcher.
Thus, multitasking is a myth; instead, the mind switches between tasks.
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