visual task

基本解釋

If people are focusing strongly on a visual task, this will reduce the awareness of stimuli in other senses.
人們注意力高度集中在視覺(jué)任務(wù)上，那么對(duì)由其它感官帶來(lái)的刺激的敏感度就會(huì)降低。
The researchers found that they were far less likely to hear the tone while performing the more difficult visual task, even when it was played on its own.
結(jié)果研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)，當(dāng)參與者專心于更困難的視覺(jué)性任務(wù)時(shí)，其注意到這些聲音的概率大大降低，哪怕這些聲音是單獨(dú)播放的，也不例外。
While most participants' performances on the visual task declined over time, the performance by the group that was asked to respond to the digits while in the midst of the task did not.
研究人員發(fā)現(xiàn)，大部分測(cè)試者隨著重復(fù)性工作的延續(xù)表現(xiàn)情況下降，而在測(cè)試過(guò)程中被要求對(duì)數(shù)字做出反應(yīng)的小組人群表現(xiàn)依舊良好。

Then, the facial expressions of women were recorded they performed a visual task and were simultaneously exposed to the sweat samples.
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The women also showed altered behavior in their visual search task when they were exposed to the chemosignals, but had no awareness of any change in their expression or behavior.
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