Sentence examples for task of listening from inspiring English sources

The brothers went about their task of listening: to nursemaids, to farmers, to the pharmacist's wife.

If our attention flags during a Beethoven symphony, we are not failing the task of listening.

Whole-brain fMRI activation patterns in an auditory task of listening to tones including pitch and duration deviants were compared between SPD and control subjects.

Though Schmidt was aware of them, they contained 50 hours' worth of music and were in such chronological disarray that he put off the task of listening to them.

"The only real solution is the time-honored, time-consuming task of listening and hearing one another," says Dyer, who is also executive director of MIT Sloan's Good Companies, Good Jobs Initiative.

The piece, not radical but in "a jazz style that even I knew had faded out 30 years before", is a total flop, pleasing neither the cognoscenti - "I devoted myself to the horrible task of listening to everything that was being played" - nor the rock fans, some of whom subsequently smash up Vandervane's instrument.

This task consisted of listening to a short story about which a multiple-choice question would be asked at the end of the trial.

Given this pattern of findings from Deaner et al., we hypothesize that, within the context of the task, the value of listening to vocalizations has a low value.

There is abundant evidence in the literature that the internal generation of narrative speech activates the dACC/SFG, and the ability of the patients to activate this region during the 'surrogate' task of listening-and preparing-to-repeat was used as an index of their ability to activate this region during picture description.

Whitaker's co-star is the impeccable Frank Wood, who has the impossible task of listening/not listening, of being both a real human being and a black hole of indifference.

Various possible reasons for the difference in findings are presented and the article concludes with a consideration of what can be learned from the research for the design of listening test tasks with interactive input.