Finally the activity or task also needs to have a contextual definition.

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

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

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However, all this activity merely reveals the scale of the task of cleaning up China's banks.

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Looked at closely, though, this activity appears to be more like rapid task switching than multitasking.

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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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The researchers recorded the rats' brain activity using electrodes as the animals completed the task.

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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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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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The researchers checked that the viewers had not been covertly practising the task while watching the video by recording the volunteers' arm muscle activity during the viewing.

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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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