The work went flawlessly, ending 16 minutes ahead of schedule even with the addition of a brief task, the manual extension of a docking target that did not properly deploy and was in the astronauts' way.
After the experiment had finished the subjects completed a verbal de-briefing task to determine if subjects were aware of the colour manipulation.
The de-briefing task comprised of nine questions and refers to the purpose of the experiment and the colours employed within.
The Digit Span Test is a brief task that assesses immediate memory/attention.
The smartphone also collects voice samples, elicited through a brief task of comments about pictures presented through the smartphone.
A new Google application called Crowdsource has quietly appeared on Google Play, asking users to perform brief tasks that will help improve the quality of Google services like Maps, translation, image transcription, and more.
Using data from the sensors in your phone and other fitness devices, Jiyo gives you tips for brief tasks that are supposed to improve your well-being, like doing a stretch after a long flight, or meditations and other routines that might improve your sleep if you haven't been sleeping well.
It is possible that brief tasks involving very few food-signal pairings recruit different mechanisms (e.g. stimulus devaluation; Veling et al., 2013a) compared to longer tasks that include more food-signal pairings (which may also recruit automatic inhibition; Verbruggen & Logan, 2008a).
This provides a method for functional parcellation of cerebral cortical regions based on a single brief, task-free resting-state scan, and has the potential to yield novel insights into functional connectivity in the human brain, such as the dissociation between connectivity profiles of dorsal and ventral anterior insula presented here.
Children also completed several individual difference measures, including a brief intelligence task and an advanced social cognition measure (interpretive theory of mind).
Specifically, in the beginning of the sixth PD session, participants were engaged in a brief "summary task," which allowed them to debrief on what they had done/learned about until that session with the task analysis and video analysis.
