By taking the Thriving in Mind self-assessment, for example, I gained clarity on why certain types of work came so naturally to me and why I found myself avoiding other types of tasks.
Future studies should investigate whether similar results hold for other types of tasks and how other variables (e.g., time of day, physiological arousal, or other task characteristics) may influence the direction and magnitude of NIF effects on performance.
Further research with other types of tasks (for, e.g., cooperative carrying task, dancing task, and so on) is needed generalize this finding.
Furthermore, working memory has been linked to the magnitude of the interruption cost in other types of tasks (Drews & Musters, 2015; Foroughi, Werner, McKendrick, Cades, & Boehm-Davis, 2016).
Given the relationship between interruptions and errors observed in other types of tasks, it is somewhat surprising that we did not find this effect (Altmann, Trafton, & Hambrick, 2014; Li, Blandford, Cairns, & Young, 2008; Westbrook et al., 2010).
Note, this is not the same as simple distraction, since other types of tasks such as verbal tasks during traumatic films are predicted (and have been shown) to lead to increased flashbacks [23], [24].
Recently, health systems research has increasingly explored the potential benefits of two other types of task shifting; namely, the shifting of tasks to lay community providers and counsellors (type III) and to the PLWHA themselves (type IV) [ 29].
Of note, the application of Bayesian hierarchical models has increased our understanding of other types of emotion tasks as well (e.g., emotional flanker task; Pe et al., 2013; see also Vandekerckhove, Tuerlinckx, & Lee, 2011).
But he noted that some other studies, using other types of mental tasks, had found reduced brain activity in the lateral prefrontal cortex in people who did well on the tasks.
You can slice fruit, uncork wine, cut articles out of magazines, remove old luggage tags, file your nails and perform other types of essential tasks.
However, other types of tactile tasks may not work the same way, he adds.
