Sentence examples for cold tasks from inspiring English sources

However, manipulation of affect via other methods, such as mood induction, can influence performance on the same "cold" tasks (1,8).

Cognitive processes that require the integration of executive processing with emotional processing may be influenced by both mood and 5-HT (which would explain recent findings in which mood state and 5-HT interact to bias cognition) (17), and simple "cold" tasks, which do not require higher prefrontal processing, may be unaffected by both mood and ATD.

Similarly, people who value people and connection most won't be impressed with colder, task-driven people, even if they are perfect for the job.

Of the individual stressors, only SBP responses to the Mirror Trace and Cold Pressor tasks were independently correlated with LVMI (r = 0.35 and 0.34, respectively, p values <.01).

We attempted to disentangle the influence of affect on cognition by examining the effect of manipulating both serotonin (via acute tryptophan depletion [ATD]) and mood on established hot and cold cognitive tasks.

This study employed a 2 (optimism/no optimism) × 2 (pain/no pain) between-subjects design to explore whether (1) experimentally induced pain (cold pressor task) deteriorates subsequent executive task performance, and (2) whether an optimism induction can counteract this sustained deteriorating effect of pain on executive task performance.

The final task was a hand cold pressor task where participants were asked to place their hand in icy cold water for up to 2 minutes.

To measure adrenocortical reactivity, we collected saliva specimens at four points during the stress protocol: during the baseline period, twice after the acute stress task (21 and 40 min after the start of the cold pressor task), and during recovery (60 min after the cold pressor task).

Systolic and diastolic blood pressure increases were accompanied by bradycardia in the forehead cold pressor task but by tachycardia in the foot cold pressor task.

After the cold pressor task, we administered two cognitive stressors, mirror tracing and reaction time tasks (in counterbalanced order).

Fifteen minutes after the cessation of the cold pressor task a post-stress saliva sample was collected, after which participants began the computerized risk task.