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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Task Engagement"”.
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An On-Road Assessment of Driver Secondary Task Engagement and Performance during Assisted & Automated Driving
… visual or attentional resources on the driving task or environment, drivers are allowed to perform secondary tasks (i.e., non-driving related tasks (NDRTs)). Given that drivers will freely choose what types of tasks they do during CAD it is important to build an understanding of whether drivers …
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Application of learned industriousness theory to brain injury rehabilitation: Examining the effect of effort training on task engagement
… moderate to severe TBI who exhibit low levels of engagement in activities of daily living (ADLs), (b) investigate the effect of effort training as an intervention to increase engagement in ADLs among participants who exhibit low levels of engagement in performing ADLs, and (c) expand upon learned …
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Examining the effect of Drums Alive® intervention on verbal communication and task engagement in children with autism spectrum disorder
… challenges with verbal communication (VC) and task engagement (TE) in daily and academic activities. Antecedent-based interventions (ABI) have been explored as evidence-based practices (EBP) to improve VC and TE for children with ASD. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of Drums …
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Examining the effect of Drums Alive® intervention on verbal communication and task engagement in children with autism spectrum disorder
… challenges with verbal communication (VC) and task engagement (TE) in daily and academic activities. Antecedent-based interventions (ABI) have been explored as evidence-based practices (EBP) to improve VC and TE for children with ASD. The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of Drums …
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The Neurobiology of Social Cognition: Role of the Posterior Cingulate Cortex
… In fact, the neural network that mediates our engagement with the external world - the default mode network (DMN) ¬- is strongly convergent with the neural circuitry for social cognition. The posterior cingulate (PCC) is believed to be a key node in both the DMN and in social cognition. Human …
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Brain Dynamics When Alertness Fluctuates but Attentional Demands Persist
… waxes and wanes throughout the day. Some tasks demand our unwavering attention, and when alertness dips, we still need to stay focused and engaged. This thesis examines how the human brain functionally reorganises when alertness levels decline but attentional demands persist. We focused on …
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Workload Transitions and Stress: Changes Over Time
… were asked to perform a digit detection task that suddenly shifted between low and high event rates (i.e., low and high workload, respectively). The first experiment used a large magnitude transition that resulted in a decrease in reported levels of task engagement and effort. Over time, …
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An ERP Investigation into the Influence of Spatial Relevance on Attentional Deployment
In visual search, top-down task knowledge and bottom-up stimulus salience interact to determine where observers are most likely to attend. Past research has demonstrated that during search tasks, scene regions with a high probability of containing the target (spatially relevant regions) are more …
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Multimethod analysis of interest
… brief readings, indicated their interest and engagement in the readings, answered questions about the readings, and were allowed to choose whether to continue reading or read an alternative article. Results showed that trait interest measures converged and diverged as expected across the two …
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An experimental study of self-regulated learning in biology with special reference to instructional control, locus of control, and academic performance
… perceptions of control by offering choices in task engagement was undertaken with two intact samples of Caucasian standard ten higher grade biology pupils in Cape Town, with the student groups matched for IQ and ability. A counter-balanced, quasi-experimental research design was implemented for …
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Does Motor Attention Enhance Perception in Hemispatial Neglect?
… right-hemisphere stroke, while maintaining high task engagement. In the post stroke participant, the observed increase in depth and far-left coverage suggests that voluntary movement can transiently expand contralesional spatial exploration. These findings support the hypothesis that …
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The Container Contained: biography and role as factors in managing stress for secondary head-teachers – a psychosocial analysis
… the unconscious influences role acquisition and task engagement. Further applications to both theories are suggested. A central argument is that working with school leaders has a systemic impact on schools and school populations, something well within the remit and consultative skill-set of …
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Interactive contributions of children’s negative or positive behavior and maternal cardiac physiology to parenting in real time: An integration of biology and context
… (65 girls) during a 5-min challenging puzzle task. Maternal and child behaviors were rated observationally in 15-sec intervals. Maternal cardiac physiology was assessed for each 15-sec interval of the puzzle task via Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia (RSA). Results from multilevel models showed …
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Brainwaves, Memory, and Reward
… it did so by motivating greater attention to the task overall, resulting in greater error correction following lower quality (i.e., reward ineligible) responses rather than to those items that were specifically rewarded. Although these results did not yet reach statistical significance, they do …
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Does working together increase flow with age?
… relatively more to the experience of activity engagement. In the second study, within a laboratory setting, the Flow state was measured immediately following engagement with jigsaw puzzles in which the social condition (individually or with a familiar partner) and difficulty level (easy or …
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Estimation of Shared Functional Information Between Neural Areas
… mice performing visually guided decision-making tasks provided by the Allen Institute. These datasets include multi-unit activity recorded with Neuropixels probes across several brain regions, including visual cortex, thalamus, and hippocampus, enabling a detailed examination of distributed …
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Hangry Minds, Unhealthy Choices: EEG Microstate Dynamics as Predictors of Goal-Dependent Dietary Self-Control
… goals. Prior research has focused largely on task-based brain activity to provide insights into neural underpinnings of individual differences in dietary self-control, leaving the role of intrinsic resting-state dynamics largely unexplored. To address this gap, the study conducted a …
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INTERFACE EVALUATION AND OPERATOR PERFORMANCE PREDICTION, APPLIED TO A TELEROBOTIC CASE-STUDY.
… 27 subjects performed a teleoperated cutting task, while performance, physiological and behavioral data was collected. Four telerobotic interfaces with different control and visual designs were developed and evaluated, aiming to advance our understanding of how the interface impacts the …
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