Слово "perform". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

When you perform some action, you think about it and constantly apply yourself so that it works.

The testing of the apartment had been performed. Thinking no more either of the deceased nephew or of the apartment, shuddering at the thought of the risk he had been running, Maximilian Andreevich, whispering only the three words

This document remained locked in my drawer all day: after tea, I asked leave of the new superintendent to go to Lowton, in order to perform some small commissions for myself and one or two of my fellow-teachers; permission was readily granted; I went.

His tall figure, his bent back, his deathlike face with the stamp of eighty years upon it, his old greatcoat torn at the seams, the battered round hat, at least twenty years old, which covered his head – bald but for one lock of hair not grey but yellowishwhite – all his movements, which seemed performed, as it were, aimlessly, as though worked by springs – no one who met him for the first time could help being struck by all this.

"Performing music calls for skill and comprehension... And ears more sensitive than yours," The bird replied. "It's one of Nature's laws: However much you change positions, My friends, you'll never make musicians!"

and I know a little bit about how the brain performs under stress.