It is well established that facing a cognitive challenge while carrying out a motor task interferes with the motor task performance, and in general the ability of handling a dual-task declines progressively with aging.
Many people listen to music while they're carrying out a task, whether they're studying for an exam, driving a vehicle or even reading a book.
That's because performance in these jobs involves more than proficiency in carrying out a task.
The researchers began by scanning the brains of 31 men, aged between 19 and 32, while they carried out a task in which they were asked to select one of two symbols on a computer screen.
In the last 10 years, more than 600 journalists and media workers have been killed while attempting to carry out a task we in the U.S. consider basic and fundamental: delivering information to the general public.
Researchers scanned the brains of more than 30 individuals while they learned how to carry out a task for their own benefit, someone else's benefit or no-one's benefit.
The screen also provides information while the robot is being trained to carry out a task.At $22,000, Baxter costs barely a tenth of some automated production-line systems.
Anytime the Defense Business Board wanted the consultants to carry out a task, Tillotson would have to approve.
It also upheld Apple's claim that Samsung had infringed on its design patents by copying aspects of the iPhone's design, such as the system used to display icons.At the same time, the jurors tossed out Samsung's charge that Apple owed it money for violating several of its patents, including one that allows a user to listen to music in the background while carrying out another task on a device.
Online planning, as suits the name, points to learners using the time available while carrying out the task "to regroup and to plan on the fly" (Skehan, 2007:57).
