Recognition was at ceiling for all the patients and controls when many dots defined the form (1600pnt condition).
For subject 2, baseline behavior was at ceiling for the CRS-R, so behavioral assessment was carried out by structured clinical observations.
But since performance was at ceiling for both groups (Means, emo, neu: OAs = 98.5%, 97.6%; YAs = 98.8%, 99.3%) and comparisons of neutral and emotional block accuracy scores within each group showed no difference across valence (YAs: [ t(1,19) = 1.45, p = 0.162], OAs: [ t(1,19) = 1.39, p = 0.180]), it is unlikely that the trend reflected any meaningful difference.
This linkage has been reported by Peng, Tomblin, and Turner (2008) who found that a panel of adult listeners judged the accuracy of question and statement sentence production by older CI children and adolescents, elicited during an interactive task, to be 73% while it was at ceiling for age-matched NH speakers.
These analyses were not carried out for the happiness > neutral condition because performance in the Ekman test for happiness recognition was at ceiling level for most subjects.
Because recognition memory for objects themselves was likely to be at ceiling (as established in our validation study for probe words), the tests focused on more difficult details of the encoding episode.
Mean accuracy was at ceiling (93%), precluding meaningful analysis.
The ceiling and floor calculations characterized this difference, particularly in the pain domain, where 216.4.4%) of subjects were at the ceiling for the WOMAC pain scale compared with 2 (0.6%) for the OA-FUNCTION-CAT functional pain item bank.
While accuracy was higher in Experiment 2 than 1a, performance was still not at ceiling for any pair.
Many studies have not observed sex differences when employing isolation protocols, and some have speculated this may be because isolation-evoked play is at a ceiling level for both males and females [ 45].
