And we did it mostly in Mandarin — a language I speak poorly at best — with occasional forays into English when my comprehension skills failed.
The majority of patients with comprehension deficits failed to perceive them.
Because data comparisons are critical for many science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) tasks, we must learn the underlying reasons why graph comprehension can fail and how it might be improved.
This raises the critically important question addressed in the current study, namely, why and when is there a general dissociation between eye movements and film comprehension, which fails to support the eye mind hypothesis in film viewing?
After application of identical exclusion criteria to those used in Experiments 1 and 2, we additionally excluded subjects who failed comprehension questions about usage of the confidence scale (subjects passed if they rated "perfect" performance at least 10% greater than "chance" performance), leaving N = 46 subjects for analysis (16 f/30 m, aged 20 50).
Alternative linear models were tested, with devaluation sensitivity as the dependent variable, including general task comprehension (the number of times that participants failed the instruction comprehension test) and consumption sensitivity as predictors.
Moreover, whereas controls deactivated brain regions pertaining to the default mode such as the left precuneus and the left middle frontal gyrus as well as the right anterior cingulate while processing the prosodic connected speech comprehension, the HFA group failed to deactivate these brain areas.
Five were found to be ineligible at screening, and one failed the comprehension test.
The number of times that participants failed the comprehension test that followed these instructions was used as a covariate in our subsequent analyses, accounting for general comprehension ability.
Nevertheless, it is a weakness of our study that we did not use the most sensitive tests of object naming and word comprehension, and may have failed to identify some patients with subtle deficits in either, due to acute lesion in the left temporal pole.
