This is equivalent to excluding the tasks that lead to large value of DL LMCS t y i when being paired with y i because they are unlikely to be well correlated with y i.
A phenomenon of excluding certain tasks similar to the one we described for type (A) is found by Melchinger and Machleidt [ 19] in their study on dementia-care by German GPs.
Although these tasks (excluding the Hue Discrimination task) have been primarily designed to activate parietal cortex, they were not expected to be directly related to each other [see [ 65] for discussion of this point].
Critically however, when this was done, the experimenter was blind to the nature of the block type (motor or perceptual), thus removing the potential to bias the analysis, e.g. by excluding perceptual task blocks in which eye movements were prevalent.
Given that prosodic and melodic skills are not our main interest here, and that the introduction of six Profiling Elements of Prosodic Systems Child version variables might disproportionately distort the factor analysis, we reran the same principal components analysis restricted to the 17 language tasks, excluding Profiling Elements of Prosodic Systems Child version tasks.
We computed three components as average Z-scores of the following variables (from the 17 tasks excluding Profiling Elements of Prosodic Systems Child version), renormalized according to the mean and standard deviation of the control subjects.
Workloads were estimated from a hospital perspective, using a top-down approach, distinguishing infection control (IC) and ward staff duties, set-up and routine activities, and excluding research-driven tasks.
These included a small group reflection on a critical incident from practice, and opportunities for student self-assessment prior to both GP supervisors' reports.> Each of the assessment tasks, excluding the MCQ, was marked on a four-point scale, to encourage standardisation across raters about the expected level of student performance.
The mean and standard deviation (SD) were calculated for each participant across all correct trials of both tasks, excluding raw RTs < 200 ms or >3 SD above that individual's mean as probable outliers (on average, fewer than 1.5% of trials).
Functional data from all phases of the VSTM task (excluding the ITI) were entered into the analysis model: no distinctions were made between encoding, maintenance, or retrieval phases.
