Dr Eden and Dr Zeffiro have also compared the brain activity of dyslexics and readers who were given a task that has nothing to do with reading.

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Some of this activity is rapid task switching, and some is real parallelism.

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Innovative companies view customer activity as the basis of competition and a task in the context of all the tasks that customer has to do before, during and afterwards.

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He also announced a new task force to pursue and prosecute corporate criminal activity.

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Rapid task switching, which may look like multitasking, is common and required for many types of activity.

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