Its progress can be monitored on the PC, but it runs unattended, continuously providing stimuli as instructed, observing the position of the animals, changing the light/shock as needed, and recording all of the data in a logfile.
Slowly, while the subject is instructed to hold the position of the fingers, force is increased, and after a few seconds, the examiner pulls to break the position.
Participants were instructed to indicate the position of the asterisk (left vs. right) as quickly as possible by a button press on a keyboard.
Using the middle 4 keys (left middle, left index, right index, and right middle fingers) of an 8-button response box, the participant was instructed to indicate the position of the shorter line by pressing the spatially corresponding key (e.g., Fig. 2 a, leftmost line shortest, response with the left middle finger).
The patient and caregivers were instructed to record in a diary the position of the body (supine or upright), food intake, and symptoms throughout the 48-hour period.
They were instructed to move the joystick to the position of the current dot in the '0-back' condition, to the position of the previous dot in '1-back' and to the position of the dot two presentations back in '2-back' blocks.
Participants were instructed to move the cursor to match the position of a wireframe target using the current technique (either INSPECT, or Wand).
They were instructed to press a marked key on a computer keyboard that was underneath the position of the asterisk on the screen.
Subjects were instructed to ignore the flashes at the fixation point and to attend entirely at the position of the Gabors.
