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And when it comes to qualities like sustained attention and switching between tasks effectively, bilinguals often come out ahead.
These findings suggest that switching between tasks leads to overestimations of time spent on media.
The human capacities for overcoming prepotent actions and flexibly switching between tasks represent cornerstones of cognitive control.
Bilingual kids may be speedier at switching between tasks, according to a Child Development study.
A Stanford researcher found that heavy multitaskers performed poorly on a test measuring ability to filter out distractions and another test evaluating their skills at switching between tasks.
But chronic multitaskers ultimately diminish their powers of mental organization, demonstrate increased difficulty switching between tasks, and report more social problems than low-multitasking peers, according to Clifford Nass, a professor of communications at Stamford University.
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A set switch would require switching between task rules, as with the WCST, and is considered to be the most abstract.
Task switching is a control process that enables flexible switching between task rules and responses.
Taken together, the observed deficits in keeping task-sets online and flexibly switching between task-sets may not be due to top-down control failure, but rather ineffective bottom-up signaling for the need for control.
In combination with the presumed role of this region in self-generated thoughts (Burgess et al., 2005; Christoff and Gabrieli, 2000), Gilbert et al. therefore suggested that lateral rostral PFC supports the switching between stimulus-oriented and self-generated thoughts rather than the switching between task sets.
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.
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