Sentences with phrase «use during tasks»

One explanation Trumbo offered is that the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is particularly involved in strategy use during tasks.

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The registration total, announced on Wednesday during the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, include both hobbyists and businesses that use drones for tasks like inspecting rooftops for damage or taking pictures of farmland.

After a post-doc stint with Hinton, LeCun moved to AT&T's Bell Labs in 1988, where during the next decade he did foundational work that is still being used today for most image - recognition tasks.

The Federal Aviation Administration's new ruling for how companies can operate drones came in effect on Monday, ushering in a potential wave of businesses using flying robots to perform tasks like monitoring crops during daylight and capturing panoramic pictures.

Most important, he hands off responsibility to employees for running weekly half - hour to one - hour client updates, crucial meetings during which Mr. Oakley generally provides a detailed review of each project's status — a task he used to conduct even while on vacation.

I'm still going through a major adjustment period, getting used to accomplishing way less of my usual tasks during the day and sleeping in 2 or 3 - hour increments at night.

This leaves Conte to his usual battery of other tasks — communicating with the commercial coordinator during TV timeouts, logging infractions on quad - color carbon paper, phoning goals to the press box booth using the penalty box's landline, clicking the backup stopwatch around his neck in case the scoreboard malfunctions.

You'll find different products for different tasks, like jogging to get some exercise or packing in the car to use during trips.

Biel explains that during an evaluation, the therapist uses a task analysis to figure out just what's going on.

So Espaillat, City Councilmen Ydanis Rodriguez and Robert Jackson and Assemblyman Guillermo Linares announced the creation of two new task forces that will follow a similar crime fighting approach that was used to stop a crime wave in Washington Heights during the»80s and»90s.

Among the key reasons cited by the Assembly and the ECA for adopting a June primary date are that, in their view: an August primary would result in reduced turnout because many voters vacation during that month; identifying and training sufficient poll workers would be very difficult during a prime vacation period; schools, which are often used as poll sites, are frequently closed and unstaffed during the summer; and that, given the myriad tasks that must be completed to prepare and transmit ballots, as well as the inevitable delays caused by administrative challenges, machine malfunctions and counting of paper ballots, setting a June date would ensure better compliance with UOCAVA's 45 - day ballot transmission requirement.

They used the system to measure pen speed and pressure during a simple spiral sketching task in a sample of healthy volunteers and Parkinson's patients with different levels of disease severity.

With tasks involving the temporary storage and manipulation of memory, long term memories and inhibitory control, young adults favor the right side of the PFC, while older adults engage both the right and left PFC.. In fact, with aging, we tend to use both sides of the PFC during mental tasks, rather than just one.

The virus - transmission prevention tasks included pregnant mothers knowing their own HIV status and asking their sexual partners to be tested; mothers taking anti-retroviral drugs for the six weeks prior to childbirth and during labor; babies receiving anti-retroviral drugs for at least six weeks, until they can be tested for the virus; and mothers using one feeding method (breastfeeding or formula) for the first 6 months of their infants» life, and, when possible, exclusively breastfeeding.

Brain activity was measured using electroencephalography (EEG) during each trial of the cognitive task, which took place immediately after a two - second audio clip of an infant vocalization.

What's more, brain scans taken during the task revealed that while the non-musicians primarily employed their left frontal cortex, the musicians used the right - hand side too (Brain and Cognition, DOI: 10.1016 / i.bandc.2008.07.009).

By stimulating the right side during the verbal task, the volunteers might get better at using a strategy.

The study, published online July 29 in Cerebral Cortex, used functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to examine children's brain activity at rest and during two tasks: solving simple math problems and looking at pictures of different faces.

During another test, participants demonstrated poorer performance on a «Stroop task,» a commonly - used measure of executive cognitive function.

However, by recording brain activity during a simple task — whether one hears BA or DA — neuroscientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE), Switzerland, and the Ecole normale supérieure (ENS) in Paris now show that the brain does not necessarily use the regions of the brain identified by machine learning to perform a task.

The team used a quantitative electroencephalogram (QEEG), which measures electrical activity through 19 electrodes resting on the head during specific tasks.

During a study, college students performed a task about two minutes faster using the new method vs. the traditional interface.

Chimpanzees produce similar movements in the bulging lip display used during bluff displays, but this doesn't seem to be produced when they are engaging with a difficult task as it is with humans.

According to Dr. Gaffield, the sophisticated behavior tasks, used in combination with genetic reporters and effectors of activity, have opened up the possibility of studying cerebellar circuits during voluntary movement at an unprecedented level of quantitation.

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.»

This task has been used in several studies showing recruitment of the medial temporal lobe during navigation.28 - 30 The study was performed in accordance with the protocol (available at NEJM.org), which includes mention of a test of deep - brain stimulation during egocentric training; we have yet to carry out this part of the protocol.

For example, in nonhuman primates, stimulation using microelectrodes improved face categorization (Afraz et al., 2006), modulated motion perception with great specificity (Fetsch et al., 2014), and increased the learning rate during a reinforcement learning task (Williams and Eskandar, 2006).

Core stability exercise has been used with success in athletes and orthopedic patients with lower back pain and has also been reported to improve trunk stability in stroke patients, which is essential for balance and extremity use during daily functional activities and higher level tasks.

We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to assess each patient's ability to generate willful, neuroanatomically specific, blood - oxygenation - level — dependent responses during two established mental - imagery tasks.

Comparison of event - related activation during auditory and visual oddball tasks using fMRI.

OBJECTIVE To use functional MRI (fMRI) to investigate whether hippocampal activation during a memory task can predict cognitive decline in individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

We first demonstrate less variability of global Pearson correlations with respect to the two chosen networks using a sliding - window approach during WM task compared to rest; then we show that the macroscopic decrease in variations in correlations during a WM task is also well characterized by the combined effect of a reduced number of dominant CAPs, increased spatial consistency across CAPs, and increased fractional contributions of a few dominant CAPs.

This suggests that one mechanism used to guide behavior during multitasking is the implementation of swift and durable task - preparation processes (which are difficult to undo).

His most recent study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on 13 healthy French volunteers to illuminate how cortisol varies during mental and physical tasks, and how cortisol acts on specific brain regions such as the hypothalamus (J Neurol Neurosci, 7:92, 2016).

Here, we sequentially conducted both a case - control study and a clinical trial to investigate the potential effects of oxytocin on this difficulty at behavioural and neural levels measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging during a psychological task.

Moreover, using a Dot Probe task, we find that the emotional attention bias present prior to the nap / wake interval is reduced following a nap but not when children stay awake during naptime.

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].

During intense physical efforts, the body first depletes the glycogen that stored in muscles and liver and when these sources get drained it starts using fat as energy — with L - Carnitine, this task becomes easier for the body.

The researchers made use of functional MRI for analysing brain activity during the n - back task, to evaluate basic capacities for improvement of everyday cognitive tasks, such as working memory and sustained attention.

The difference is that I know how to intervene during that process now because I can recognize that I'm not actually hungry, but using food as a distraction to get away from the stress of the task I'm working on.

In this 2012 study: Oral intake of γ - aminobutyric acid affects mood and activities of central nervous system during stressed condition induced by mental tasks study participants used only 100 mg of GABA and saw mental stress reduction effects within 30 minutes.

Although made for night - time use, I love wearing my eye pads during the day when I'm running around taking care of the daily tasks at home.

At work I perform calibrations of test equipment used in various parts of the part during maintenance tasks.

Cars 3 uses a progression system that relies on the user accomplishing a set amount of tasks during the race to reward points.

Help students to stay focused during presentations and generate smoother transitions using these tips for task orientation.

Use this fall pennant to accomplish multiple tasks within your classroom during this wonderful fall season.

Such a motivation is being heavily used by a trainer during a workshop - trainees compete or cooperate with each other while being engaged in various tasks and challenges.

All staff were involved in directing the learning throughout our TPL program and we used a range of data pre and during the TPL to design each professional learning session and set «in - between'tasks, which we used as discussion starters in following sessions.

It can include playing with manipulatives, leaving space for student discovery, tinkering with numbers and shapes, questioning that stimulates curiosity, using a makerspace during math centers, acting out story problems, investigating an engaging task, using movement, and playing math games.

This lesson worked really well with year 9, engaging them during the pattern drawing element of the task, and then teaching them some basic photoshop skills as a follow up lesson (using the worksheet).