Sentence examples for Attend to a task from inspiring English sources

First discovered in 1995 by researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin, the default mode network is not only active during introspection and day-dreaming, but also deactivates as soon as we begin to attend to a task that requires a bit of serious thinking.

Gloria Mark, of the University of California, Irvine, has shown that workers typically attend to a task for about three minutes before switching to something else (usually an electronic communication) and that it takes about 20 minutes to return to the previous task.

If a child is wiggly and doesn't know how to attend to a task, doesn't that mean he or she needs to spend another year in preschool?

For example, it might be that participants have only two possible attentional states: attend to a task or ignore it.

With hemifield attention studies, the subject fixates both eyes at a central point and is asked to attend to a task in either the left or right half of his full visual field, as images are presented to both fields of both eyes.

We observe that the correlation between α and connectivity depends on attentional state; specifically, α correlated more highly to structural connectivity during rest than while attending to a task.

Boredom at work is a negative reaction in response to a personal assessment of a work situation that is more short-lived than attitudes such as job satisfaction in which a person feels a pervasive lack of interest in, and difficulty attending to, a task or activity.

Cherishing clients is different than focusing on fixing a problem, creating a plan or attending to a task.

This research has revealed that people may fail to notice various unattended stimuli for example, simple shapes, meaningful objects, words or events (Most, Simons, et al., 2001; Neisser & Becklen, 1975; Rock & Gutman, 1981; Simons & Chabris, 1999)—while attending to a task involving high perceptual load (e.g., keeping a separate count of different types of ball passes).

Rather, drivers actively manage the distribution of their attention between driving and competing tasks and select when to initiate or attend to a secondary task.

In addition, an unsolicited interruption may occur, where as a result of situational awareness, the physician interrupts his own primary task to attend to a more urgent task (e.g., stopping history taking to prevent a confused geriatric patient from falling out of bed).