The inability to initiate behavior sufficient to sustain a complex neurocognitive task is a characteristic of geriatric depression which may be associated with integrity of left-prefrontal regions.
Sustaining a volunteer task force for crowdsourcing and croudcomputing is difficult beyond a certain time frame (as the volunteers have other needs—such as jobs, families to attend).
The other areas of everyday life in which pain reduces control over time and body are standing for any length of time, for example to iron or to prepare vegetables, and sustaining a physical task for any length of time, such as vacuuming or dusting.
State-related processes are sustained throughout a task (e.g., "retrieval mode" associated with ongoing goals), whereas item-related processes are transient and allied to individual stimuli (e.g., "retrieval success" associated with the recovery of information from memory).
In summary, the results of the current study suggest that musicians are capable of recruiting more brain resources to sustain cognitive control during a WM task with musical chords than are non-musicians, and in doing so are able to sustain a higher performance level despite the elevated cognitive demands.
Attention, concentration, and working memory are evaluated using a sustained attention task, a serial subtraction task, and digits forward and backwards (max 6 points).
Sustaining attention on a task means you can maintain focus; poor focus corresponds to impulsivity.
The fourth possibility, which follows logically, is that the ability to inhibit motor activity to low levels during a sustained attention task may be a particularly good index of the primary problem present in individuals with ADHD.
At the same time, another group of brain regions that is usually lively when a person is sustaining effort on a task began toning down.
This, in turn, allows for the allocation of attentional resources, by reflecting a top-down modulation of attentional for sustaining focus on a task [42].
Additionally, reduced connectivity between the thalamus and right prefrontal region, occurring concurrently with increased connectivity between the thalamus and occipital lobes, has been found in ADHD in an fMRI study using a sustained attention task [ 28].
