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Looked at closely, though, this activity appears to be more like rapid task switching than multitasking.
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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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Some of this activity is rapid task switching, and some is real parallelism.
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The SuperAgers also matched the middle-aged on tests of naming things, attention and task switching, and identifying drawings by category.
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If they performed this activity very fast, switching from one task to the next, humans sometimes interpreted the result as multitasking.
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This is why we often consider multitasking a myth, and feel it is more accurate to think of it as rapid task switching.
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Moving between eggs and lettuce is task switching, but the pan is actually heating as she preps the food, and the water is running over the lettuce while she stirs the eggs.
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Figuring out how to perform an essential task like switching from AM to satellite radio can be daunting at first.
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Such task-switching, aka multi-tasking, has been shown in several studies to increase stress, which can interfere with short-term memory, leading to more mistakes.
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Officials feared the brackish storm water that poured into tunnels could corrode vulnerable signal and switching systems, complicating the task of reopening a bus and rail system that ferries 8.5 million passengers on a typical workday.
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As soon as you back off, say by switching off the background music and allowing your foreground process to have all the processing power (and thereby complete its task more quickly), the benefits of having a dual-core machine will become far less tangible.
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