In order to investigate differences between the grey dots task and the red dot task directly, a separate mixed-effects model was fitted on the accuracy data with exclusion of the standard task.
The practice phase exactly matched the study and test phases in all respects except for the use of female target faces and the exclusion of a distractor task.
The first four practice blocks were also omitted due to the exclusion of the speaking task.
After exclusion of the figure copy task, the battery is ready for clinical evaluation and as a next step we suggest validation for INPH and a comparison before and after shunt surgery.
Jette and his colleagues [ 3] have noted that most existing instruments focus on assessing discrete functional tasks to the exclusion of performance on socially defined tasks expected of an individual within a typical sociocultural and physical environment.
"There is definitely an element of 'flow' going on," says Good. "Postulated by Mihaly Csikzentmihaly, flow happens when the gamer has clear defined goals and focuses solely on the task in hand so that they become completely immersed and engaged in the task to the exclusion of all else around them.
Dissociation does not have to be pathological: it can occur in normal life when, for example, one becomes absorbed in a task to the exclusion of other aspects of the environment.
In the aviation industry, interruptions and distractions are one of the most common causes of pilot error, and lapses of attention where a pilot is preoccupied with one task to the exclusion of another have contributed to many aviation accidents [24].
We applied this liberal threshold when generating the mask image to reduce erroneous exclusion of brain regions related to the task performance (lower probability of Type II errors).
The results were not seriously affected by the exclusion of nonchronometric measures of the cognitive tasks from the model, suggesting that individual differences in mental speed are a main causal factor underlying the observed correlation between general intelligence and scholastic performance in children between the ages of 6 and 13.
Timothy Foster had argued that the exclusion of African-Americans from the jury tasked with weighing his case violated the Constitution, which prohibits states from using what are known as peremptory strikes to leave out jurors because of their skin color.
