As hypothesized from previous work [27] [29], the WM task required that participants maintain focus on the current task environment.
Subjects were instructed to look at the distracters but maintain focus on the WM task.
3 At the provincial, district, and village levels, leadership takes the form of motivated and inventive people able to solve practical problems of supply, funding, and personnel; adapt to unforeseen events; mediate between the sometimes conflicting priorities of the vertical and integrated systems; and maintain focus on the key tasks of surveillance and response.
This is the ability to maintain focus on a task and block out things going on around you.
Using a longitudinal design, we tested the hypothesis that one such trait, negative urgency (the tendency to act rashly when distressed), predicts the onset of NSSI during the first year of college and a different trait, lack of perseverance (the disposition to fail to maintain focus on tasks that are difficult or boring), predicts the maintenance of NSSI during the first year of college.
It is possible that musicians, due to their training, are better able to maintain focus on task-relevant stimuli, a skill which is crucial to working memory.
Our finding may indicate an association between a reduced ability to maintain focus on, or switch to, a goal (task in this case) and a less favorable response to CBT.
I was forced to reprioritize my commitments to maintain focus on getting through each day -- a difficult task for a chronic workaholic.
We have to maintain focus on that".
With the widespread use of this technology, the question remains whether the use of such phones can lead to long term cognitive effects that impact language development skills, memory capability and maintaining focus on tasks at hand.
