Given that our patients were in the chronic post-stroke phase (∼36 months on average), the clinical utility of our result is that patients with damage to Perisylvian regions of the left hemisphere are likely to remain impaired on digit span (Analysis 1); although this could be due to a variety of reasons, not least damage to the speech output system.
However, because hatchling digits were measured by two different persons (85 and 47 hatchlings measured respectively), we standardized the data by measurer identity, setting the means to zero and the standard deviations to one before pooling the digit measures for analysis.
As the primary measure of interest in this experiment was increases and decreases in power with greater memory load, we selected a planned comparison of the 1-digit and 4-digit conditions for statistical analysis of load effects.
Analysis of digit number in the different genotypic classes revealed an additive genetic interaction between hhkr and Gli3 (Table 1).
To further discover valuable genes in our data base, we consider that combinations of high-throughput sequencing, gene-chip and microarray analysis, and digit gene expression tag profiling with more classical methods (for example gene clone and Southern blotting) could greatly advance our knowledge of plant developmental processes.
The offspring was genotyped by PCR, X-gal staining or by YFP-fluorescence analysis of digits, respectively as described below.
Mean response times were 1-digit: 1686 ms, 2-digit: 1781 ms, 4-digit: 2020 ms. Repeated measures analysis of variance with subject as a random effect indicated a significant linear increase with memory load of 112 ms per digit (F1,13 = 20.99, P < 0.001).
An example of the ensemble of waveforms that results from the combination of the gammatone and modulation filterbank analysis for the digit sequence 'zero six' is shown in the lower panel on the right-hand side of Figure 1.
An analysis of the Digit Span subtest found that lower scores were significantly predicted by higher SCQ scores, a finding that persisted after adjusting for covariates.
0.840 0.003 2.069 0.007 18.24 0.20 15.31 0.17 38.01 0.41 Analytical uncertainties are indicated in parenthesis with last significant digits (1 standard deviation of analysis).
