Those with more to learn (ie, the artificial grammar, as well as the mere mechanical task of pushing the button) have more active brains.
As the structural backbone of blood clots, fibrin networks carry out the mechanical task of stemming blood flow at sites of vascular injury.
In nature, molecular machines play a vital role, being involved in almost every major biological process and allowing a vast array of chemical and mechanical tasks to be accomplished.
But it is a routine mechanical task to check whether a given sentence is an instance of this scheme.
She shakes hands firmly and snorts when she laughs and falls to mechanical tasks with the easy confidence of a union plumber.
While we've grown accustomed to seeing such traditional robots expressionless and clearly controlled assisting in all sorts of rote mechanical tasks, more humanoid machines, like Honda's Asimo, have been around since at least 2001.
The "under-challenged" subtype, characterised by feelings of indifference, boredom, and lack of personal development, is typical of people who perform mechanical tasks.
Hierarchical surface structures fulfill various mechanical tasks; they can reduce the ability of insects to walk (e.g., fish-hooked hairs on bean leaves against aphids, trapping surfaces in insectivorous plants or flowers of Arum) or increase the ability of insects to walk, as is the case in flowers and even orient the visitors with cuticular folds [132].
It has been proposed that certain characteristics of the task and types of occupation (and in particular, mechanical tasks [ 17]) could make it more likely for a person to develop burnout, specifically with regard to the "under-challenged" profile [ 33- 35].
Not just those of us doing repetitious or "mechanical" tasks will be replaced.
