The phrase "an experiment to ask" is not entirely correct and may be unclear in written English.
It could be used in contexts where you are describing a specific experiment designed to pose a question or gather information.
Example: "The researchers conducted an experiment to ask how different variables affect the outcome of the study."
Alternatives: "a study to inquire" or "a test to investigate".
To distinguish between these possibilities, we performed an unbiased experiment to ask whether ErbB signaling is required for any aspect of canal morphogenesis.
Here we employ a longitudinal experiment to ask whether personality changes in response to the experience of parenting in male threespine sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus.
It's even possible, as a thought experiment, to ask what it would be like to see the world in the moral terms that a baby does.
And one of the first experiment that I did, that I'll talk about in a little bit of detail here just to give you a concrete sense of an experiment, is to ask whether there are parts of the brain that are specialized for face perception.
We design an experiment to investigate whether asking people to state how much they will donate to a charity (i.e., to pledge) increases their actual donation.
Sure, I had not taken a test in a while — if you don't count grammar and logic tests that circulate on Facebook, which I ace — but when an independent Russian television channel, TV Dozhd, was staging an experiment, asking successful grownups to take standardized high-school graduation tests on air, I decided to take obshchestvoznaniye, or civics.
Famed Stanford University psychiatrist Dr. Philip Zimbardo discovered this phenomenon when, in an experiment, he asked students to assume roles either as prisoners or guards.
If you have any questions or concerns about participating in an NIRS experiment do not hesitate to ask the study investigators or staff.
If you have any questions or concerns about participating in an MRI experiment do not hesitate to ask the study investigators or staff or contact Mary Foley ([email protected]) at the Martinos Center.
If you have any questions or concerns about participating in an TMS experiment do not hesitate to ask the study investigators or staff, or contact Aapo Nummenmaa ([email protected]) at the Martinos Center.
