Furthermore, inhibiting an automatic response to perform an alternative task-relevant response was compared to wholly inhibiting an automatic response.
In an alternative task-oriented brain model, parts of the brain responsible for similar tasks—such as speech, reading, and language would be closely linked together.
For many clinical procedures there are multiple alternative task sequences that can be performed.
In addition, in terms of workflow-level failure handling, the authors propose mechanisms such as alternative task (try a different implementation when available), workflow-level redundancy, and user-defined exceptions that are able to fallback to reliable failure handling.
Ryder returned to the boat and ordered the MTB to carry out its alternative task and torpedo the lock gates at the old entrance to the basin.
Given this alternative task interpretation the intuitive response would be perfectly valid.
For each subsequent trial, participants were presented with a cue, indicating that they should either 'stay' doing the same task or 'switch' to performing the alternative task.
The birds were thus more efficient in solving the task of their specialisation than they were in solving the alternative task.
To explain the above results, we conduct numerical simulations of a simple alternative task in which the reward probability is given as a function of the current and most recent two choices (at, at−1, at−2) (see Methods).
The latency between contacting a task and solving it was significantly lower for the task these birds had been trained on (mean±SE = 1.61±0.30 s) than it was for the alternative task (4.93±1.13 s; paired Wilcoxon signed-ranks test: Z = −2.201, N = 6, P = 0.028).
However, when the participant performs one task that is followed by the alternative task (e.g. uppercase/lowercase judgment followed by a consonant/vowel judgment) the condition is considered a 'switch' trial.
