This ensures the collected data for experience-dependent brain activity is purely from the novel task.
Some studies measure the effects of sleep deprivation after a novel task is taught (the subject learns the task and is sleep deprived afterwards).
A satisfactory theory of human cognition can hardly be established by experiments that provide inexperienced subjects with brief opportunities to perform novel and meaningless tasks.
A test of imitation by Alexandra Horowitz found that adult subjects imitated an experimenter demonstrating a novel task far less closely than children did.
The effort involves one particularly novel task for the agency's epidemiologists, she said: compiling a schedule of popular jam bands and their tours.
It is a difficult and novel task to build a new civilization.
By utilizing novel cognitive tasks, Gluck has studied many disorders that are not traditionally viewed as learning disorders.
Depending on the type of team building, the novel tasks can encourage or specifically teach interpersonal team skills to increase team performance.
It included highly rewarding novel tasks that required attention control and became progressively more difficult to perform.
In the novel Unusual task (1975), the protagonist, a young scientist Pavel Smirnov, is close to solving a scientific problem.