Ever since the 2006 World Health Report advocated increased community participation and the systematic delegation of tasks to less-specialized cadres, there has been a great deal of debate about the expediency, efficacy and modalities of task shifting.
Ever since the 2006 World Health Report advocated the systematic delegation of tasks to less-specialized cadres and "placing strong emphasis on patient self-management and community involvement" [ 1], there has been a great deal of debate about the expediency, efficacy and modalities of task shifting.
However, information processing creates a cognitive load regardless of the modality of task.
Pooling all studies irrespective of task modality or content, they found stable moderate effects in strictly euthymic BD samples, as well as in subsyndromal samples, favoring HCs.
Indeed, the dendrograms obtained, which showed a more comprehensive picture of the grouping between behavioral parameters, demonstrated some relevance of task modality.
Our aim was to compare the neural substrates of musical and verbal semantic memory by administering the same type of task in each modality.
The effects of interest were a main effect of modality (i.e., auditory vs. visual), a main effect of task demands, and an interaction between modality and task demands.
Additionally, the issue of modality, which is considered an indispensable component of task performance, has garnered little attention in task-based planning studies.
However, on closer inspection it appears that significant effects occur unpredictably and independent of task type or input modality.
A central question is whether the representation of time is distributed over brain regions as a function of stimulus modality, task and length of the duration used or whether it is centralized in a single specific and supramodal network.
The type of the task, task difficulty (Appel, 1986), the goal of the task, the number of participants involved, task modality, the performance mode of the task, the amount of concern a participant feels about the consequence of the task, and the cultural experience of the participants are among these (McCafferty, 1992).
