The rapid growth in data centers, some with hundreds of thousands of computer servers attending to tasks as diverse as managing complex physics problems and posting pictures to Facebook, has led to a lot of worries about power consumption.
This may be due to the logistical and ethical issues that may arise when working with more severely impaired individuals, including difficulties with communication, giving informed consent, attending to tasks and following instructions.
Life requires that we deal with not getting our way, work with people we don't enjoy and attend to tasks we dislike.
When asked to describe the locomotion patterns of swimming fish from a video, experts attended to task-relevant features more than novices and remained focussed on these areas.
The developers considered the addition of terrain deformation and manipulation, combined with "smart" villagers who automatically attended to tasks, to add an entirely new dimension to the series.
As early childhood educators we need to balance this zest with the ability to listen, follow directions, attend to tasks and participate in group activities to develop the critical life skill of concentration.
Compromising the ability to selectively attend to task-relevant stimuli would reduce the Nd area amplitude (see also the Discussion section).
Behavioral tasks force the perceivers to selectively attend to task-relevant critical features of the speech sounds and make decisions.
11 15 Everyday functioning relies on executive skills and deficits in EF may manifest as disorganisation and poor planning, inability to focus and attend to tasks, carelessness in responding to tasks, reduced self-control and taking longer to complete tasks.
For instance, informal caregivers are perhaps relieved of some of their more demanding and time-consuming tasks, while enabling them to attend to tasks that are more compatible with their own wishes, their physical abilities and personal lives.
Moreover, adolescents are often asked to attend to tasks at a time much closer to their circadian nadir than adults because of early school start times and a delayed sleep phase [ 1].
