The task process was to listen to the sound and extract its specific frequency information.
"Listen to the Task Force" (editorial, Feb. 18) calls attention to the fact that the New York State budget recently submitted by Gov. David A. Paterson falls short in its support of key recommendations made by the governor's own Task Force on Transforming Juvenile Justice.
Albany needs to listen to what the task force and the Justice Department are saying: the juvenile justice system in New York has failed the state and its children.
In the context of our experiment this implies that our subjects have spent more resources on the primary task (verbal learning) than on the secondary task (listening to the music).
The report from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety studied how distracted drivers became while performing various tasks: listening to the radio, talking to a passenger, using a hand-held phone, using a hands-free phone and sending messages with a speech-to-text system.
Those who listened to rhythmic music finished the tasks more efficiently than those who listened to the other types of sound, suggesting that rhythm in music promotes behaviors that are linked to social cohesion.
Because its decision-making process had integrity, because its report possesses the imprimatur of a group of ideologically unaligned leaders, we would be wise to listen to, and act on, the task force's recommendations.
In the other three conditions participants were financially rewarded for their performance, do free association (e.g., think about their most recent holiday) or listen to music during the AB task.
Once you know who to talk to, getting him to listen to you is the next task.
Typically auditory selective attention studies have employed a dichotic listening task, instructing subjects to listen to one ear and ignore the sounds coming from the other ('attend towards' vs. 'attend away').
In this sustained attention task, children listen to a series of numbers from a CD.
