Absorbed in the task: Personality measures predict engagement
during task performance as tracked by error negativity and asymmetrical frontal activity.
«Specifically, the results will provide missing evidence on the brain areas involved in cognitive fatigue,» she noted, «as well as how their functioning is related to cognitive fatigue
during task performance.
The brain areas that showed greater activation on warmer days were regions typically activated by MS patients
during task performance: the frontal, dorsolateral, prefrontal and parietal cortex.
Not exact matches
During the game, which lasted about 10 minutes, one member's profile and comments were randomly manipulated to highlight high introversion or extroversion while their actual
performance of the
task stayed the same.
In other words, just having your phone in your line of sight can be distracting, lead to reduced attention and hamper your
performance during a
task, especially for
tasks that require more attention and concentration.
But Watson is fighting on other fronts, too — to stitch together a fretful party, many of whose MPs see Labour's sometimes shaky
performance during the referendum campaign as fresh evidence that Jeremy Corbyn is not up to the
task of winning the next general election.
No time - of - day effect was found for analytic problem solving, but subjects»
performance on
tasks requiring creative insight was consistently better
during their nonoptimal times of day.
In MS patients, warmer outdoor temperature was associated with greater BOLD activation
during performance of a simple sustained attention
task.
During another test, participants demonstrated poorer
performance on a «Stroop
task,» a commonly - used measure of executive cognitive function.
«When we learn a
task during movement training (for example playing the piano), gradually our
performance gets better.
Both groups performed
tasks of working memory
during functional MRI imaging of the brain; the TBI group reported more fatigue, although
performance was comparable between the groups.
The graphs show the behavioral
performance of six subjects on spatial learning
tasks during stimulation and nonstimulation of the entorhinal region (Panels A and C) and the hippocampus (Panels B and D).
Our data reflects the level of efficient organization of the functional brain network
during a resting state and not the efficiency of functional connectivity between brain regions
during the
performance of specific cognitive
tasks that enter into the IQ score.
After treatment, greater activation was evident on fMRI in the treatment group
during performance of a memory
task; no change was seen in the placebo group.
However, we did not observe aggression related to
performance during the current
task.
Task - based functional connectivity measures the synchronization of activation levels between brain regions
during the
performance of a given cognitive
task.
Of particular interest is working memory, which temporarily stores useful information
during the
performance of a sequence of
tasks.
PET measures regional cerebral blood and acts as a marker to show which brain areas are lighting up
during a memory
performance task.
We consider recent experiments correlating neuronal activity the medial temporal cortex (area MT) to
performance during two - alternative discrimination
tasks [4, 5], and show how the different
tasks used in these studies either isolate the effects of «high - slope» encoding [5] or «peak - firing - rate» encoding [4].
Recent studies have started showing that if you haven't already been a regular drinker, the
performance during physical activity or
during mental
tasks might only get a slight improvement or none at all if you start drinking caffeine.
Brain activity reduction and the fact that no drop in behavioural
performance was seen
during the
task indicates that the brain is more efficient under the 2 substances» combined effect, as fewer resources are needed for producing the same
performance level compared to those individuals who had the placebo or who had only glucose or caffeine.
It found that, yes, a woman's
performance on certain memory
tasks tends to dip as her estrogen levels drop — and it happens
during the average age range of menopause: 45 to 55.
Judge, M. P., Harel, O., and Lammi - Keefe, C. J. Maternal consumption of a docosahexaenoic acid - containing functional food
during pregnancy: benefit for infant
performance on problem - solving but not on recognition memory
tasks at age 9 mo..
This makes it the top choice for reaching peak brain
performance all day, especially
during demanding
tasks or
during Bulletproof ® Intermittent Fasting.
In elderly subjects (60 - 75 years) however, caffeine improved
performance during more complex
tasks requiring sustained attention.
In younger subjects (18 - 37 years), caffeine has been shown to improve
performance during distraction, rather than
during simple
tasks.
Interestingly, improving
performance during complex
tasks is usually less effective in elderly subjects than in younger participants7.
The yellow spots show regions of the brain where blood flow increased
during performance of the
task.
Curriculum planning meetings: Principals drop in on teachers» unit planning meetings and make suggestions on ways to check for understanding
during lessons, in unit tests, and in
performance tasks requiring deeper engagement.
Neither the dyslexic nor control groups showed a change in
performance on the letter rhyme
task performed
during fMRI (percent accuracy: dyslexics: pretraining = 71.2, posttraining = 76.0, P > 0.1; controls: pretraining = 83.1, posttraining = 84.1).
Over time, as online assessments can begin to track students» «moves»
during an assessment or
performance task, rather than simply spitting out the students» correct or incorrect answer, educators may gain greater insights into what students do and don't grasp.
During the 2013 — 2014 school year, Facing History worked with lead teachers around the country to develop Facing History units that combined our content and pedagogy with
performance tasks created using the Literacy Design Collaborative's online instructional design system.
These supplementary guides include writing prompts that can be used as
performance tasks to complete the unit, detailed strategies for evidence gathering
during the unit, and teaching strategies for crafting the argumentative essay.
The solution to this problem is curriculum - embedded
performance assessment — not isolated
tasks held secure and assigned to students
during fixed testing windows a few times
during the academic year — but rather
tasks that are integral parts of instructional modules or units.
During the last 12 weeks of the school year, Smarter Balanced administers a summative assessment consisting of a computer - adaptive test and a set of non-adaptive
performance tasks that require students to use multiple Common Core skills.
During each cycle, the teachers found that students improved in the completion of
performance - based
tasks and higher - order thinking questions.
Students in 21 states got a preview of the
performance tasks during the Smarter Balanced field test, a practice run for the new tests held last spring.
Using assessment data gathered
during the first three sessions, the volunteer tutor's letter to the child's family, posted on WebCT, described each informal assessment
task and the child's
performance on the
tasks.
Academic life and academic
performance of students will be heavily influenced by the writing
tasks that students deal with at some point
during their college and university years.
Writing is a very general
task during one's academic years and it is crucial for students to develop knowledge in writing in order to improve their academic
performance.
A high school language arts teacher distributes a summary of the summative
performance task that students will complete
during the unit on research, including the rubric for judging the
performance's quality.
Writing is a very general
task during one's academic years and it is crucial for students to develop knowledge in writing in order to improve their academic
performance.
Academic life and academic
performance of students will be heavily influenced by the writing
tasks that students deal with at some point
during their college and university years.
Other specs include the in - house developed Kirin 925, an Octa - core processor that uses ARM's big.LITTLE architecture, which gives you four A15 cores and four A7 cores that share the system's workload dynamically to give you really
performance when you need it with the A15 cores, and great power saving
during other less intensive
tasks.
However, contrary to their results, we found that increased maternal behavior was positively associated with undesirable anxiety - related behaviors and
performance in young adult dogs, including high activity when isolated, a short latency to vocalize when presented with a novel object, and perseverative errors and poor
performance during a problem - solving
task.
In my estimation the i5 with the GTX 960 represents the best price to
performance ratio since the extra oomph of the i7 won't provide a huge difference in game
performance, and will only be able to flex its muscles
during processor intensive
tasks or in a few select titles.
If items are encoded
during a semantic
task,
performance should be higher for a memory test that relies on concepts related to the items for retrieval than a test that relies on perceptual features.
It's a new design with four cores: two high
performance cores, and two low - power cores that use less battery power
during everyday
tasks.
During this time, I measured how well it handled everyday productivity
tasks, as well as its
performance in a real - time strategy video game (arguably the most PC - centric genre).
Its Helio P60 chipset can achieve 12 % power savings overall and a 25 % power savings
during intense
tasks like 3D gaming, while its CPU and GPU see a 70 % uptick in
performance.