The phrase "active paradigm" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing frameworks, models, or approaches that are dynamic and responsive to change.
Example: "In our research, we adopted an active paradigm to better address the evolving needs of our participants."
Alternatives: "dynamic framework" or "responsive model".
"The move from passive to a more active paradigm in consumer behavior is where the new media has had the greatest impact," said Henry Jenkins, director of comparative media studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Future studies should seek to study this component using an active paradigm.
For the second condition, which was conducted after learning ("Plus"), we used an active paradigm which forced subjects to attend to both the auditory and visual inputs.
Unlike the other studies reviewed here, they adopted an active paradigm, with ERPs recorded as children pressed a button when detecting a deviant tone.
It is possible that their use of very brief (24 ms) tones, and/or an active paradigm, where children counted deviant responses, accounts for this difference (see also Jirsa & Clontz, 1990).
However, in a similar active paradigm, Ors, Lindgren, Blennow, Nettelbladt, Sahlén and Rosén (2002) failed to find any group differences in N1-P2 in a comparison of 10 children with SLI and 10 control children aged from 10 to 14 years.
In these particular cases, similarly to functional MRI active paradigms, late event-related EEG potential components, such as P3b, can reveal the recovery of residual cognitive function in patients that are otherwise unresponsive (Schnakers et al., 2008; Faugeras et al., 2011).
However, it has to be mentioned that active paradigms of that kind will only be able to distinguish DOC patients at the higher end of the DOC spectrum as they require the integrity of several sensory and cognitive processes at the same time.
In parallel to event-related EEG potential recordings and active paradigms, it would be useful to develop more sensitive methods to detect recovery of consciousness that do not depend on the integrity of sensory and motor pathways nor on the subject's ability to comprehend or carry out instructions.
The amygdala has also been reported to constitute part of a network activated in the active oddball paradigm, both for rare and deviant tones [36].
We therefore used an "active" grinding paradigm in participants without stomatognathic symptoms to extract the regional brain activity that specifically responds to the elevation of perceived discomfort in participants.
