Some attempts have been made to explore the role of difficulties in thinking across size and scale as a potential unifying impediment in biological thinking, though this has been primarily employed with regard to misconceptions about energy and matter and the ideas of photosynthesis and cellular respiration (e.g., Wilson et al., 2006; Hartley et al., 2011).
The most famous and challenging beard of them all sits on the chin of Daniel Day-Lewis, who eases into a role of epic difficulty as if it were a coat he had been wearing for years.
N-back accuracy, however, did not confirm this role of task difficulty.
We report on the role of task difficulty elsewhere [ 26].> This exploratory study revealed that time pressure had little effect on the quality of judgement outcomes in a simulated acute care setting; a finding that contradicted results from other psychological studies [ 27– 29] where time pressure was shown to produce a significant reduction in the quality of judgement and decision making.
Nine physicians talked about the role of financial difficulties in deterring women in seeking breast screening.
Given the increasing proportion of older adults in the population, it is particularly important to understand the role of hearing difficulties as a risk factor for restricted life-space mobility and consequent decreased participation in society.
Fourth, since income and employment status, in particular unemployment, had the most consistent associations with sleep duration and insomnia-related symptoms, this raises a question about the mechanisms and role of economic difficulties.
While this measure may not singularly isolate the child's cognitive development, knowledge of the critical role of emotional difficulties in the child's learning and subsequent academic attainment is an important insight for policies on global support for vulnerable children, including but not limited to those vulnerable due to parental death.
Sensory problems, manifested as either hyper- or hypo-reactivity to stimulation, are prevalent in autism (Crane, Goddard, & Pring, 2009), and the critical role of sensory difficulties (Ben-Sasson, Soto, Martinez-Pedraza, & Carter, 2013) is recognized by their inclusion in the new DSM-5 (American Psychiatric Association, 2013) criteria for autism.
We investigated the moderating roles of task difficulty and training on the neural efficiency phenomenon in the context of working memory (WM) training.
