Participants were then asked to take part in an unrelated computer task for half an hour.
They can access email, use Microsoft Office and complete any other computer task, Roberts said.
In one study, 84 subjects were asked to perform a simple computer task for one hour.
Next to each response, give an estimate of the amount of time you devote each week to this computer task.
The investigating officer in the case, Matthew Broad, works for the Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team, a computer task force.
The team gave subjects a dose of THC or a placebo and then observed which areas of the brain were active while they performed a computer task that involved stopping certain movements.
They could be forgiven for not knowing that air-fare searching is an astonishingly complex computer task -- or that it took a small software company, founded a few years ago by a procrastinating graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to help simplify the process.
The basic premise of the IAT is that if two concepts are strongly associated in someone's mind, then they will be able to quickly and correctly categorise them in a computer task (whereas concepts that are less strongly associated will take longer to process).
Scientists have been able to measure our unconscious stereotypes through a computer task called the Implicit Association Test IATT).
There were no significant effects of light condition on cognitive empathy as assessed using the computer task.
Participants responded on a computer task to earn hypothetical money which could be later exchanged for real money.
