This was a forced choice in order to avoid an excessive "cortical spread" of the stimulus which would have occurred if we had utilized 110% intensity of the threshold of the less excitable (i.e. arm/shoulder) muscles.
As the mean eigenvalue is expected to be unbiased, a specific proposal has been to regress eigenvalues towards their mean to reduce their excessive spread.
To further avoid excessive spread of activation across the auditory cortex, 2 stimulus intensities were employed that were relatively low but that differed by 20 dB.
In an effort to overcome some of the mentioned difficulties, in the current study, we employed task-irrelevant unattended low-level stimuli to avoid excessive spread of sound-evoked activation.
The balance between lateral excitation and inhibition was set to prevent an excessive activation spreading across all the auditory neurons.
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The solvent evaporates faster preventing excessive spreading of the deposited droplet on the substrate.
Excessive spreading around the source zone is predicted by the model, resulting in a poor reproduction of the observed impact area.
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