Sentence examples for lost trials from inspiring English sources

Outlier trials consisted again of less than 2% of the remaining data, and lost trials due to Wiimote pairing less than 4%.

For completeness, we also examined brain responses to the two socially "incongruent" feedback conditions, corresponding to the perception of opponent faces (smiling on LOST trials, SF-L>AF-L; or angry on WON trials, AF-W>SF-W AF-W>SF-W AF-W>SF-W

Indeed we observed a reliable main effect of positive (WON) or negative (LOST) feedback in regions associated with reward and motivation processes, including basal ganglia, OFC, and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex for WON trials, as well as retrosplenial cortex and right insula for LOST trials [22].

Importantly, note that even though the AF-L condition represented negative social feedback, it was nevertheless congruent with the goals and expectations of participants on LOST trials, and thus did not correspond to a condition of social rejection or exclusion as implemented in other paradigms [31], [32].

When comparing angry vs smiling faces in LOST trials (AF-L>SF-L), a condition meant to evoke signs of reproach or social punishment, we found significant activation in left dorsal amygdala (Fig. 3a), as well as left hippocampus and right insula (see Table 1).

The total number of missed trials across all participants was 8, with a maximum of two lost trials for two of the participants.

For descriptive purposes, we additionally conducted first-order parametrical analyses of anticipation phases of losing trials (LA1) and outcome phases of lost losing trials (LOL1) [Additional file 1].

In the present study, the same stimuli were used on both winning and losing trials.

On all losing trials the bird was still required to respond to the tumblers to advance to the next trial.

Losing trials, therefore, could only be identified by recognising that the first nonidentical stimulus following one, two, or three identical stimuli signalled reward omission.

There were two types of trials (2nd factor), winning trials and losing trials, with two possible outcomes, respectively (3rd factor): In winning trials participants either won or did not win a chocolate bar; in losing trials, already won chocolate bars were either lost or not lost.