Sentences with phrase «simple tasks»

Without it, so many simple tasks in life can become difficult.

When TMJ is a problem, the affected area becomes inflamed and simple tasks like talking and eating become painful chores.

Our brainpower can be mind - blowing, but neuroscientists tell us (as does our practical wisdom) that despite our huge capacity to learn and comprehend, we were not designed to multitask — as we divide our attention between multiple tasks, our efficiency and accuracy fall off precipitously no matter how seemingly simple the tasks are.

If you lack confidence doing simple tasks, Dr Sharp offers a fresh perspective.

I was tearful, irritable, anxious and unable to cope with simple tasks.

Hips, knees, wrists and hands are affected, making it difficult to sit, walk, climb stairs, and even perform simple tasks such as driving or typing.

Yet chronic knee pain can be an especially painful issue that reduces your capability of performing the most simple tasks as standing, walking, jumping, running and maintaining body balance.

So they asked 775 people, ranging in age from their 30s to their 100s, to complete a few simple tasks: rising from a chair repeatedly for 30 seconds, standing on one leg for a minute, and walking for six minutes.

, to complete a few simple tasks: rising from a chair repeatedly for 30 seconds, standing on one leg for a minute, and walking for six minutes.

Since many of you think «I don't have time,» breaking simple tasks into small time intervals ultimately leads you to your big goal.

Winter officially has us in its freezing cold claws, making simple tasks like running to the grocery store grueling without hats, gloves, scarves, puffy coats, hand warmers... you get the picture.

In reality, she may feel deeply frustrated by seemingly simple tasks, from picking out clothes to grocery shopping to keeping files organized at work.

These applications span from simple tasks such as mapping sequences over a database to more complex procedures as clustering or annotation processes.

However learning even simple tasks such as growing and crossing wheat plants requires time and effort, while material and methods sections in published articles are often short and can not substitute teaching aids.

An example of this collaboration is the El - E robot, designed to perform simple tasks such as opening drawers and retrieving objects.

Even the simple tasks of independent living, such as getting out of a chair or climbing a flight of stairs, can become major obstacles.

The research team's goal is to develop additional capabilities for the ARIES companions to help older adults with simple tasks that could include help in finding lost objects, medication reminders, or other tasks that sometimes become challenging, especially for those who may have mild dementia.

Already, researchers have developed devices such as deep brain stimulators for treating Parkinson's disease, cochlear implants for restoring minimal hearing in profoundly deaf people, and a computer interface called BrainGate that allows fully paralyzed individuals to accomplish simple tasks via a robotic arm.

After many months of looking and listening for correlations between lots of different behaviors and cell activity, I began to realize that the major correlate was not what the animal was doing, whether it was eating or exploring an object or carrying out a simple tasks such as pressing a lever to get food, but something about where it was doing these things in the environment.

«Before we had access to large amounts of data, neuroscience made huge strides from using simple tasks, and they'll remain very useful,» Pitkow said.

«These are simple tasks, but they give families a sense of control and knowledge about what they can and can't do,» says Van De Graaff.

«Simple tasks don't test brain's true complexity.»

Xaq Pitkow and Dora Angelaki, both faculty members in Baylor's Department of Neuroscience and Rice's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, said the brain's ability to perform «approximate probabilistic inference» can not be truly studied with simple tasks that are «ill - suited to expose the inferential computations that make the brain special.»

One of those tools is Amazon Mechanical Turk, a service from the retail giant that enables anyone to hire online workers to perform short, simple tasks.

We already know how to use brain signals to direct robots as they perform simple tasks, says University of California at Berkeley mechanical engineering professor Homayoon Kazerooni.

«But feeding themselves, doing simple tasks, I'm hoping that that's one thing that would happen.»

A large body of research suggests that controlling your position can be a task like any other, drawing on cognitive resources: simple tasks such as counting backward get harder when you must also hold a particular pose, and vice versa.

Previous studies have shown that BrainGate can allow paralyzed people to perform simple tasks such as moving a computer cursor.

Furthermore, when she gets to her car and unlocks the door and even puts the car in gear, she may not be perceiving impairment in these simple tasks.

Watching video of simple tasks before carrying them out may boost the brain's structure, or plasticity, and increase motor skills, according to a study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 66th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, April 26 to May 3, 2014.

Neuroscientists at Duke University have introduced a new paradigm for brain - machine interfaces that investigates the physiological properties and adaptability of brain circuits, and how the brains of two or more animals can work together to complete simple tasks.

But Atlas (shown) and others still have trouble with simple tasks, such as walking, communicating and staying powered up.

When it comes to simple tasks — such as tapping a finger rapidly against a hard surface or standing still without swaying — those with autism perform just as well as controls do.

ResearchKit's first apps focus on asking users to fill in surveys about their health or to perform simple tasks, such as walking around the room, that allow the phone to gather data.

Receiving praise and recognition in the workplace motivates us for simple tasks but not for more complex projects, according to a new study co-authored by a University of Greenwich academic.

In the future, the researchers plan to extend their work beyond these simple tasks of perception and into studies of long - term memory, which could have broad implications — from how we assess a presidential candidate, to if a witness is offering reliable testimony.

To test the system, the team first teleoperated Baxter to do simple tasks like picking up screws or stapling wires.

Each was asked to use their virtual limbs to perform simple tasks, like catching a virtual ball or stepping on highlighted squares.

Impairments in processing and using information that help with decision - making and planning simple tasks such as grocery shopping are linked with one's frequency of alcohol or drug use according to a new study.

Seven years later, Malkin launched Global Public Service Academies, which trains high school students to perform 117 simple tasks such as changing batteries, replacing blown fuses, and swapping out faulty plugs.

«Outside of cities with mass transportation, undocumented immigrants are at a serious disadvantage without driver's licenses, making simple tasks like picking up groceries, picking up a child from school or going to work a struggle.»

Some city mayoral candidates are tripping at the starting gate, embarrassed or defeated by simple tasks.

It's amazing how much more time consuming and complicated previously simple tasks take when you add a baby in to the mix.

Simple tasks like making meals and grocery shopping can wear her out as if she just did strenuous exercise.

By putting simple tasks such as, «Brush teeth» or «Take a nap» on the chore list, you are communicating to your child that they are special and need to put self - care on their own list of priorities.

Taking time to help your child become familiar in the kitchen through simple tasks like stirring and pouring will increase their comfort level and give them a head start when they get older.

As soon as you have a baby, once relatively simple tasks — from cleaning your kitchen to eating at a restaurant — become a bit (or a lot!)

Or we might teach you how to modify simple tasks, such as bathing, so your child can complete them independently.

When the song was over, the researcher who had been facing the baby then performed several simple tasks, including drawing a picture with a marker.

Reciprocal play means that your little one is starting to take turns back and forth with very simple tasks.