The subjective debriefing following each task was consistent with the objective (immediate recall or forced-choice categorization) task data; the target stimuli were not "seen" under the temporal parameters of the study.
Results from both the immediate recall task and the forced-choice categorization recognition task indicated that the backward-masking parameters were effective in preventing recognition of the targets (see details in supplemental Results in Text S1; Table S1).
The CADi consists of items involving immediate recognition memory for three words, semantic memory, categorization of six objects, subtraction, backward repetition of digits, cube rotation, pyramid rotation, trail making A, trail making B, and delayed recognition memory for three words.
In this sense, "the problem of prophysics [is] at the same time the problem of the immediate" (Rickert 1934b, 112), that is of the pure, immediately lived content preceding all synthesis and categorization.
Both an immediate recall task in the imaged patients and a forced choice categorization task in an independent sample (see Methods) were used to assess adequacy of the masking procedure.
These indicate that the categorization performance of striatal neurons was not simply related to the immediate sensorimotor state of the animal, and instead likely reflects that striatal neurons encode an internal neural representation of the state of animals' categorical decisions.
Furthermore, the categorization of the events as such helps to avoid inaccuracy in the immediate cause of death reporting, complicated by the presence of comorbid conditions, particularly in the elderly [ 43].
It also mimics the human mind's categorization of things, in which objects are quickly and accurately (based on learned visual cues) divided into immediate, distant, and various degrees in between.
Note that although we chose categories that we considered to be useful and informative for our immediate purposes, and which were similar to those listed elsewhere (5 ), this is inevitably a subjective procedure and alternative categorizations may be equally valid.
