task switching

collocation in English

meaningsoftaskandswitch

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task
noun
uk
/tɑːsk/us
/tæsk/
a piece of work to be done, especially one done regularly, unwillingly, or ...
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switch
noun
uk
/swɪtʃ/us
/swɪtʃ/
a small device, usually pushed up or down with your finger, that controls and turns on or off an ...
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(Definition oftaskandswitchfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Working memory,taskswitchingand executive control in the task span procedure.
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The results from this study also provided information on the effect of articulatory suppression ontaskswitchingand completion.
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The software has functions to try to detect players using the assistance of chess programs (mainly bytaskswitching).
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In general, microkernels succeed when thetaskswitchingand intertask communication is fast and fail when they are slow.
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From the current studies, one can see that articulatory suppression does affect the ability and reaction time intaskswitchingconditions.
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It supported rudimentarytaskswitching; it could switch between programs running in memory, at the cost of performance hit.
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This is only used for hardwaretaskswitching.
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This is used fortaskswitching.
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Taskswitchingis done using conventional time-multiplexing.
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Notaskswitchingis required.
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The software is released with various examples of popular paradigms in experimental psychology, including inhibition of return,taskswitching, attentional blink, spatial compatibility, multiple object tracking, and visual search.
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