Sentence examples for discarding trials from inspiring English sources

Hansen et al. [6] performed patellar tendon measurements, keeping 90° of flexion with a custom made rigid cast to position an ultrasound probe, and showed high accuracy and reproducibility using measurements from two trials after discarding trials with the smallest and largest measurements.

After discarding trials with artifacts (e.g., eye blinks, large eye movements), MEG trials from Blocks 1 and 3 were concatenated, as were the trials from Blocks 2 and 4. For each wrist, ~150 trials of rare MEG responses and ~850 trials of frequent responses were averaged to create two averaged files––one for rare and one for frequent responses.

From a large body of research, they discarded trials that used washouts, as well as those that focused on dysthymia or subtypes of depression.

Discarded trials were re-inserted into a random position within the remaining sequence of trials.

There was no significant difference in the number of discarded trials (Fisher exact test; P = 0.32).

We thus discarded trials in which both signals were not synchronized.

Most discarded trials did occur in the first block, indicating that participants may have been partly acclimating to the task and interface (32 vs. 15 vs. 18, χ(2) = 7.6, p<.05).

Finally, we discarded trials if responding on the preceding trial was incorrect.

Finally, we discarded trials when an error was committed on the previous trial.

We discarded trials immediately following breaks, error trials and outlier trials (RTs over 2.5SD away from the participant mean).

To select subsets of trials with similar locomotion speed (Figs. 4 and 6A C), we discarded trials with highest and/or lowest speeds (Supporting Information Fig. S1).