Editorial: Cognitive-Motor Interference in Multi-Tasking Research

Multi-tasking for TinyOS

Tasks in TinyOS execute non-preemptively and run to completion, forcing programmers to keep individual tasks short and spread lengthy operations across multiple tasks – a major divergence from conventional programming paradigms. This report documents our attempt to incorporate multi-tasking into TinyOS and its subsequent effect on power consumption of “motes”. We succeeded in modifying the Tiny...

Contests with multi-tasking

Who Multi-Tasks and Why? Multi-Tasking Ability, Perceived Multi-Tasking Ability, Impulsivity, and Sensation Seeking

The present study examined the relationship between personality and individual differences in multi-tasking ability. Participants enrolled at the University of Utah completed measures of multi-tasking activity, perceived multi-tasking ability, impulsivity, and sensation seeking. In addition, they performed the Operation Span in order to assess their executive control and actual multi-tasking ab...

Neural correlates of motor-cognitive dual-tasking in young and old adults

When two tasks are performed simultaneously, performance often declines in one or both tasks. These so-called dual-task costs are more pronounced in old than in young adults. One proposed neurological mechanism of the dual-task costs is that old compared with young adults tend to execute single-tasks with higher brain activation. In the brain regions that are needed for both tasks, the reduced ...

All for One: Multi-Modal, Multi-Tasking

We introduce Attention Teams, a unified framework for training multiple models end-to-end for multiple tasks. This paper explores banding together simple Gated Recurrent Units in teams coordinated by a high-level attention mechanism. The attention mechanism is operated by a GRU leader that determines how relevant the output of each GRU teammate is to the current input. This kind of coordination...