Sentences with phrase «subjects during tasks»

«Our finding of a link between bipolar disorder and the striatum at the molecular level complements studies that implicate the same brain region in bipolar disorder at the anatomical level, including functional imaging studies that show altered activity in the striatum of bipolar subjects during tasks that involve balancing reward and risk,» said TRSI Research Associate Rodrigo Pacifico, who was first author of the new study.

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But during the subjects» two minutes off, rather than taking on a different creative task, were instead given the much more passive activity of completing a survey that asked them about themselves.

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.

Scientists have studied brain changes on short terms of seconds and minutes, such as when research subjects complete a task, as well as on the long term of years, documenting cognitive decline during the aging process.

First, they measured nasal airflow during the task and found that subjects were truly sniffing their hands and not just lifting them to their nose.

Within six hours of viewing this film, the period during which memories are thought to be consolidated for long - term storage, test subjects were randomly assigned to one of three tasks: answering trivia; playing Tetris, a 1980s video game that involves optimizing visual - spatial cues; or engaging in nothing in particular.

«But during the navigational memory task, certain parts of the brains of subjects with concussion showed altered activation patterns, either diminished or increased activity.

During this test, the subjects were scanned with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure their brain activity while carrying out the task.

Amodio and colleagues report in Nature Neuroscience that they scanned the brains of 43 subjects during 500 trials of a task designed to test their ability to break from a habitual response.

Whether our chimpanzee subjects made use of such perspective - taking capacities during solving the numerical turn - taking task is an interesting open question for future research.»

The four blocks were separated by 2 - minute intervals during which the subjects carried out two control tasks (see the Methods section in the Supplementary Appendix).

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).

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.

During studies involving Operant Conditioning it was discovered that once a reward / reinforcer, like food, was removed, the subject eventually stopped performing the task.

There's also the Challenge Mode, where the player can do a survival - based boss rush, or Subject Mode, where the player is tasked with achieving certain objectives during the course of gameplay.

(1) Subject to subsection (2), an income replacement benefit is payable during the period that the insured person suffers a substantial inability to perform the essential tasks of the employment in respect of which he or she qualifies for the benefit under section 4.

This longitudinal study evaluated the learning and retention of task - specific training during the subjects» classroom performance of a one - person pivot transfer.