In the perceptual tasks (tone perception and vowel listening) subjects were instructed to lay still and listen attentively to the presented stimuli.
In order to control attention during the passive fMRI task we used a previously applied procedure to assure attentive observation of the presented pictures [ 28]: Before the scanning procedure, subjects were instructed to attentively observe the pictures and told that we would check their attention by asking them to identify the pictures after the scanning session.
During scanning, bird exemplars from each of the three conditions (category-training, visual exposure, and no training) were presented and subjects were instructed to view the birds attentively.
There's no sense of how these blustering, thrusting men might themselves be perceived as disruptive, and no attempt to understand the women's tactics as a form of self-preservation: even Chiku, the most attentively characterised of the three, emerges as a spoilt princess whose actions are presented as first questionable, then actively hateful.
This task, like the acceptability judgment task, ensures that subjects are reading or listening attentively, but may avoid some of the additional processing demands of acceptability judgments, and may be used no matter what type of violation is being presented in the study.
In the leafy suburbs, I am pursued by the "worried well"; requesting ever more screening, demanding the latest "breakthrough" treatment, attentively listening to advice on medications and lifestyle, and presenting requests for prescription repeats well ahead of time.
"Wouldn't be that hard / Get along so well / Sentence by sentence / It's a trial run / Let me show you how / Figure I can give you true affection". While presenting his musical plea, the crowd before him listened attentively.
Hence, the results reinforce that while such variables present themselves as relevant in migraine sufferers, health professionals must evaluate them in their daily practice, watching attentively every individual case.
If the subject is able to perform the orientation task correctly (and above chance level), we can assume that he/she has processed the items attentively, further fluctuations of attention are most likely present and related to memory formation success, but this is no problem because these fluctuations are needed for this study design.
The ability to be present and listen attentively is key to building trust with others.
The most important "intervention" is to be present and listen attentively to the caregiver's narratives.
