Holmboe and colleagues administered a task in which 9- to 10-month-old infants at high familial risk of ASD were required selectively to inhibit their looks to a peripherally occurring distractor and found that a subset showed difficulty disengaging attention, as well as less selective inhibition (Holmboe et al., 2010).
One common approach to measuring the stress response in the stress literature is to administer a stressful task, and then measure changes in the autonomic response, serological levels of cytokines, or changes in cortisol response (via any step in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis).[ 28, 52] In these studies, blood samples are collected at baseline and post-task.
To reduce a possible learning effect, we administered a baseline task after the respective aftereffect tasks.
The participants were 52 students in a school of design, who were administered a designing task and the Meaning Test, assessing a broad range of cognitive processes.
The results of Experiment 1, which administered a Stroop task with five SOAs in a manual response modality, clearly showed a different pattern to those of Glaser and Glaser (1982) and Roelofs (2010).
72, 78 In one, a subsample of patients with partial seizures taking part in a randomized, double-blind, controlled study comparing the cognitive effects of TPM and LTG, was administered a computerized task measuring scanning, divided attention, and effective field of view (via the Performance On-Line, or POL).
Polderman et al. (2006) administered a memory-task comparable to the SMS-task to 12-years old twins and their siblings (97 MZ and 80 DZ twin pairs, and 55 siblings of these twins).
In the new software introduced here, we included all relevant measures from the currently available literature in an application that can be used to administer a computerized cancellation task, and to analyze the resulting data with the click of a button.
Thus, it is likely that the improvements in duration of performance in patients are not only associated with the rTMS but could, at least partially, be due to the effects of practice on a task administered 40 times over 20 days because similar improvements were also seen in absence of the rTMS in healthy volunteers.
The provision of absorbed dose estimates for radiopharmaceuticals in routine use is generally a simple task since it requires only a patient-specific determination of the administered activity (in megabecquerels), a task performed routinely in nuclear medicine departments prior to injection.
A study among 1509 Dutch nurses showed that the majority of hospital nurses did not accept inserting an infusion needle to administer a fatal dose as a task for nurses, serving on a review-board for euthanasia cases was accepted only by 45%% of the nurses asked [ 9].
