Selection criteria included residence in the study site, respect in the community, and at least 7 years of primary education (which was deemed the minimum amount of educational attainment necessary to facilitate comprehension of their tasks and the job aids provided).
To test the subject's comprehension of the task, two unidimensional health states (HS) were given as practice.
Although specific criteria differ, each system codes for elements pertaining to spacing, organization, and comprehension of the task, among other criteria.
The task had 15 trials; (ii) reading comprehension of words: this task was identical to the previous one, only this time the word was written in the middle of the page, instead of spoken out loud by the examiner; (iii) word repetition: subjects were asked to repeat words read out loud by the examiner.
However, such computational support focuses mainly on improving performance of comprehension tasks through problem posing, such as understanding domain knowledge or procedures in problem solving.
Finally, a model of the listening skill is briefly outlined; and attention is drawn to one area in particular (information handling) that, for reasons connected with the design of comprehension tasks, is not usually covered in L2 academic listening programmes.
Based on recent evidence suggesting a role for the ATL in semantic integration, we designed an fMRI protocol comparing comprehension of brief narratives (Story task) with a semantically shallow control task involving serial arithmetic (Math task).
Two tasks (comprehension of passive structures and spatial structures) were selected as control behaviours.
These strategies can be applied to simple memory tasks or more complex tasks that require comprehension of information (Rodicio, Sánchez, & Acuña, 2013; Weinstein & Mayer, 1986).
Clinicians should be aware that health self-management tasks involving comprehension of new information may be increasingly difficult for older patients because of cognitive and literacy burdens.
The pattern of deficits observed here on tasks assessing comprehension of musical notation corroborates previous observations in the context of focal brain damage (Judd et al., 1983; Basso and Capitani, 1985; Cappelletti et al., 2000; McDonald, 2006).
