Of these, 23 had a diagnosis of "vegetative state," meaning they were not able to signal any response to commands or questions.
In recent years, brain scientists have found numerous problems with the standard bedside test for assessing conscious awareness: checking whether a person's eyes can track moving objects, and carefully looking for any signs — finger twitches, blinks — in response to commands or questions.
You ask a question, it answers but keeps listening for a follow-up command or further questions about the subject.
Speak a command or ask a question.
Therefore, in the current analysis texts were coded according to whether they contained commands, offers, statements or questions.
"The last portion of the adjustment was the inevitability that there's going to be a certain number of times where you just can't jump up and bark a command or ask an official a question," Ohio State's associate coach, Rick Boyages, said.
It is also possible for a person to deceive by cursing, making an interjection or an exclamation, issuing a command or an exhortation, asking a question, saying "Hello," and so forth.
"He was on point with his command, no question," Martin said.
One of the biggest reasons guide dogs washout during the training process is they follow every single command without question.
The command in question says unequivocally that on the sabbath, "you shall not do any work -- you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns," (Ex. 20 10).
