Performance in a short-term spatial working memory task was enhanced by lactate injection, and impaired in a dose-dependent manner by inhibitors of glycogenolysis or lactate transport.
In another, cerebellar functions related to adapting fast reaching movements during a visuomotor transformation task were enhanced after the application of tDCS over the cerebellum [20].
The main finding of this study was that divergent thinking as indexed by the verbal fluency task was enhanced acutely by cannabis in individuals who were low in trait creativity.
The cognate facilitation effect refers to the phenomenon that in bilinguals performance on various vocabulary tasks is enhanced for cross-linguistic cognates as opposed to noncognates.
An experiment was designed to determine the degree to which reciprocal aiming movements of the wrist and arm with various accuracy requirements (Fitts' tasks) are enhanced by extended practice.
Without smoothing, group-level effect size estimates on two different mentalizing tasks were enhanced by ME-ICA at a median rate of 24% in regions canonically associated with mentalizing, while much more substantial boosts (40 149%) were observed in non-canonical cerebellar areas.
(3) Practically important, but less empirically represented, skills in existing tasks were enhanced by additionally constructed tasks (e.g., "IDEA").
As a result of the pattern-matching procedure, the set of IP skills was reduced from fourteen to seven skills, and the pool of tasks was enhanced by two tasks, from 22 to 24.
Our previous studies on scalp-recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) showed that somatosensory N140 evoked by a tactile vibration in working memory tasks was enhanced when human subjects expected a coming visual stimulus that had been paired with the tactile stimulus.
Also of relevance are reports in the literature that attentional focus, which may be related to the present concept of 'focus on the task of checking', is enhanced in some behavioral tests by injection of DPAT (Winstanley et al., 2003; Carli et al., 2005).
