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Switching between tasks carries a real and measurable cost, and switching well is a trainable skill rather than a fixed property of a brain.
Drawn from what Ralph Adolphs said
What Ralph Adolphs actually said
- Ralph Adolphs Bren Professor of Psychology
So, as soon as you switch into something, there's a cost carried over from the previous task, and you're much slower and more difficult for the couple of next trials on the new task. So, there's always a switching cost
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