Participants with GAD were found to demonstrate decreased activity in the amygdala and increased activity in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) during a prolonged uncertainty task compared to a nonanxious control group.
When we measure our work by standards taken from another world, in this case the world of industrial design of toys, it's easier to spot the problems we have overlooked due to the prolonged task of dealing with the smaller details.
When assessing performance, raters make use of personal constructs and theories about performance that develop through prolonged task experience.
There is ample research indicating that prolonged task experience helps novices develop into expert-like performers through the acquisition of an extensive, well-structured knowledge base as well as adaptations in cognitive processes to efficiently process large amounts of information in handling complex tasks.
However, in contrast to previous studies demonstrating that the relationship between hormones and MRT performance disappeared with repeated testing (e.g., [ 3, 58]) the differences between men and women, as well as the slowest RTs in LU group, remained during the course of the whole prolonged task in our study.
Still, there is a pervasive sense among investors and Russian officials that the financial problems are deep-seated and that restoring the confidence of foreign investors will be a prolonged and difficult task.
PTP and PPE were recorded before, during, and after five adult male and five adult female speakers engaged in a prolonged oral reading task designed to induce vocal fatigue.
Removing competition and markets from the NHS (as Labour has promised) is likely to be a prolonged and messy task, but using a version of the ACO model could be a quick way to straddle the problematic purchaser-provider split – and bring CHS in from the cold.
It is conceivable that a prolonged training of a visuomotor task might additionally lead to functional changes in brain areas outside the sensorimotor cortex.
By engaging the stable task-set maintenance network, there are fewer resources available for other tasks over a prolonged period of time.
