Sentence examples for frontal engagement from inspiring English sources
This leads us to propose a new model of the relationship between anxiety, worry and frontal engagement in attentional control versus off-task thought.
Kiefer became famous in the 1970s and 80s for his frontal engagements with the totems of German history: blood- spattered trails befouling the deep Teutonic woods (his name means fir tree) from which the national culture had been proverbially rough-hewn; torch-lit timbered pantheons within which heroes and anti-heroes lay provisionally interred.
Frontal engagements of large formations of forces at the strategic and operational level are gradually becoming a thing of the past.
"In sport people talk about the zone, switch off the frontal lobe, emotional engagement," he said.
In fact, some of those trying to reconcile the vast literature on inferior frontal cortex involvement in speech processing have argued that, if its engagement is a matter of perceptuo-motor interface, then the IFG as a whole should share activations related to different tasks in the speech loop56.
It is of note that we did not observe an inverse relationship between trait anxiety and engagement of frontal regions in proactive versus reactive control.
Previously, executive task-related engagement of frontal regions has been associated with increased effort and a corresponding increased response time, however the findings in this present study do not support this view as our behavioural results demonstrate clear involvement of these regions in concrete word processing without any associated increase in time on task.
This is consistent with reduced engagement of frontal-thalamo-striatal "loops" in the proactive maintenance of sustained attention.
We further speculate that engagement of these frontal areas may either lead to reorganization of the brain's emotional circuitry (as has been proposed in chronic pain) or alternatively, that these circuits are simply recruited more readily.
The left-lateralized linguistic focus effect in IFG is consistent with the routinely reported engagement of inferior frontal areas in language tasks (Demonet et al. 2005; Vigneau et al. 2006).
