Simulation and tracing of hybrid task sets on distributed systems

Author(s):  
A. Casile ◽  
G. Buttazzo ◽  
G. Lamastra ◽  
G. Lipari
Author(s):  
Fabrice B. R. Parmentier ◽  
Pilar Andrés

The presentation of auditory oddball stimuli (novels) among otherwise repeated sounds (standards) triggers a well-identified chain of electrophysiological responses: The detection of acoustic change (mismatch negativity), the involuntary orientation of attention to (P3a) and its reorientation from the novel. Behaviorally, novels reduce performance in an unrelated visual task (novelty distraction). Past studies of the cross-modal capture of attention by acoustic novelty have typically discarded from their analysis the data from the standard trials immediately following a novel, despite some evidence in mono-modal oddball tasks of distraction extending beyond the presentation of deviants/novels (postnovelty distraction). The present study measured novelty and postnovelty distraction and examined the hypothesis that both types of distraction may be underpinned by common frontally-related processes by comparing young and older adults. Our data establish that novels delayed responses not only on the current trial and but also on the subsequent standard trial. Both of these effects increased with age. We argue that both types of distraction relate to the reconfiguration of task-sets and discuss this contention in relation to recent electrophysiological studies.


2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Stephen ◽  
I. Koch
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1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 321 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeff Kramer ◽  
Jeff Magee ◽  
Morris Sloman
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1989 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
pp. 268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey F. Carpenter ◽  
Andrew M. Tyrrell
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2017 ◽  
pp. 111-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Kapeliushnikov

The paper provides a critical analysis of the idea of technological unemployment. The overview of the existing literature on the employment effects of technological change shows that on the micro-level there exists strong and positive relationship between innovations and employment growth in firms; on the sectoral level this correlation becomes ambiguous; on the macro-level the impact of new technologies seems to be positive or neutral. This implies that fears of explosive growth of technological unemployment in the foreseeable future are exaggerated. Our analysis further suggests that new technologies affect mostly the structure of employment rather than its level. Additionally we argue that automation and digitalisation would change mostly task sets within particular occupations rather than distribution of workers by occupations.


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