Does "task difficulty" explain "task-induced deactivation"? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2012 The "default mode network" is commonly described as a set of brain regions in which activity is suppressed during relatively demanding, or difficult, tasks. But what sort of tasks are these?
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Irrelevant Task Difficulty Modulates the Emergence of Task Conflict [PDF]
Journal of CognitionIn cognitive control tasks, participants are typically instructed to respond to a task-relevant dimension of a stimulus while ignoring the task-irrelevant one(s).
Ronen Hershman +4 more
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Dissociating task difficulty from incongruence in face-voice emotion integration [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 In the everyday environment, affective information is conveyed by both the face and the voice. Studies have demonstrated that a concurrently presented voice can alter the way that an emotional face expression is perceived, and vice versa, leading to ...
Rebecca eWatson +10 more
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Seeing through the virtual reality: the effects of learning environment and task difficulty on difficulty perception, learning outcomes and mental models [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyVirtual Reality (VR) offers learners highly immersive learning experiences through rich audiovisual stimuli and interactive environments, while traditional multimedia videos remain one of the most widely used instructional formats.
Meixian Shan +3 more
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The effect of task difficulty on decision-making [PDF]
Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 2018 The aim was to determine whether there are differences between groups in jumping to conclusions and the number of beads required to make a decision based on task difficulty.
Estrella Serrano-Guerrero +3 more
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Brain Activity Associated With Expected Task Difficulty [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2019 Previous research shows that people can use a cue to mentally prepare for a cognitive challenge. The response to a cue has been defined as phasic alertness which is reflected in faster responses and increased activity in frontal, parietal, thalamic, and ...
Miek J. de Dreu +7 more
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The Effects of Visual Complexity and Task Difficulty on the Comprehensive Cognitive Efficiency of Cluster Separation Tasks [PDF]
Behavioral Sciences, 2023 Cluster separation is required to perform multi-class visual statistics tasks and plays an essential role in information processing in visualization.
Qi Guo, Yan Chen
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How task difficulty and academic self-efficacy impact retrieval practice guidance [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Retrieval practice can enhance learning but is rarely used in self-regulated learning. Although explicit retrieval practice guidance (RPG)—which helps students use retrieval correctly—can improve learning outcomes, however, task difficulty and ...
Chenchen Liao, Jinkun Zhang
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Attentional focus strategies and motor performance in young adolescents investigating role of task difficulty [PDF]
Scientific ReportsAttentional focus plays a crucial role in motor performance; however, its impact on young adolescent females across varying task difficulties remains unclear.
Golnoosh M. Abdi +2 more
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Pain-attributed care task difficulty among dementia caregivers with chronic pain [PDF]
Frontiers in Pain ResearchIntroductionChronic pain is highly prevalent among dementia family caregivers (henceforth “caregivers”). We used a nationwide sample of caregivers with chronic pain to identify the extent to which caregivers attribute pain to any difficulty they have ...
Shelbie G. Turner +4 more
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