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    "pk": 26938,
    "title": "Multitasking Capability Versus Learning Efficiencyin Neural Network Architectures",
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    "abstract": "One of the most salient and well-recognized features of humangoal-directed behavior is our limited ability to conduct mul-tiple demanding tasks at once. Previous work has identifiedoverlap between task processing pathways as a limiting fac-tor for multitasking performance in neural architectures. Thisraises an important question: insofar as shared representationbetween tasks introduces the risk of cross-talk and thereby lim-itations in multitasking, why would the brain prefer shared taskrepresentations over separate representations across tasks? Weseek to answer this question by introducing formal considera-tions and neural network simulations in which we contrast themultitasking limitations that shared task representations incurwith their benefits for task learning. Our results suggest thatneural network architectures face a fundamental tradeoff be-tween learning efficiency and multitasking performance in en-vironments with shared structure between tasks.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "multitasking; cognitive control; capacity con-straint; learning; neural networks"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Talks: Papers",
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            "first_name": "Sebastian",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Musslick",
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            "institution": "Princeton University",
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        },
        {
            "first_name": "Andrew",
            "middle_name": "M.",
            "last_name": "Saxe",
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            "institution": "Harvard University",
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            "first_name": "Kayhan",
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            "last_name": "Ozcimder",
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            "institution": "Princeton University",
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            "first_name": "Biswadip",
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            "last_name": "Dey",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Princeton University",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Greg",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Henselman",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Pennsylvania",
            "department": ""
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        {
            "first_name": "Jonathan",
            "middle_name": "D.",
            "last_name": "Cohen",
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            "institution": "Princeton University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2017-01-01T10:00:00-08:00",
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