Sentences with phrase «stimuli during a task»

The authors find that fitness is related to the ability to inhibit attention to competing stimuli during a task, an ability that can help children stay focused and persevere to complete an assignment.

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A set of functional magnetic resonance imaging recordings of the temporal lobes during both tasks backed up the researchers» hypothesis: brain activity was similar each time a volunteer consciously looked at the same face or house, but invisible stimuli evoked a more variable response (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science.1180029).

To see if this is true of dolphins, too, Ridgway's team gave the dolphins a more complex task — in which they had to make different sounds in response to two different visual stimuli — at intervals during the 120 - hour vigilance test.

Appropriate garnering of the stress response in anticipation of this social challenge would be expected based on previous data.8, 13,50 In the current study, this was observed only after the intervention, possibly because of intervention - induced changes in cognitive appraisal, including the value placed on peer interactions, attention to instructions about the peer entry task, self - assessment of skills to be used during the pending task, and emotion and behavior regulation during the stimulus presentation.

Results indicated MBCT - C was associated with increases in activation of the bilateral insula, lentiform nucleus, and thalamus, as well as the left anterior cingulate while viewing emotional stimuli during the continuous processing task with emotional and neutral distractors (CPT - END), and decreases in anxiety were correlated with change in activation in the bilateral insula and anterior cingulate during the viewing of emotional stimuli.