Compared with a closely matched control task, even just a few minutes of loving-kindness meditation increased feelings of social connection and positivity toward strangers.
The discrepancy between the tasks might be accounted for by the different procedures used for standardization: performance on the sequential matching task was standardized against performance on a matched control task, whereas the CFMT was standardized against age.
Compared with a tightly matched control condition, both tasks activated a common left-hemispheric network.
We performed a separate 2 Morphological Complexity (morphologically complex vs. matched control words) × 2 Task Type (oral reading passage vs. naming task) repeated measures ANOVA for each of our three derived word types.
We performed a 2 Morphological Complexity (morphologically complex vs. single-morpheme matched control words) × 2 Task Type (oral reading passage vs. naming task) repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) to investigate accuracy levels within participants.
In addition, the same study found that a right cuneus (4, −76, 8) showed association with calculation (above a matching control task) in healthy adults.
It is possible, however, that such scenarios could potentially be utilised as a tightly matched control for an CBM-I task where the same emotional information is presented as an active training condition, but in a manner that does not serve to modify the critical interpretive bias targeted in the training condition.
The present study compared 37 patients with first-episode schizophrenia treated with atypical neuroleptics and 37 healthy matched control participants on two sequence learning tasks: a modified SRT for implicit sequence learning and a serial generation task (SGT) for explicit sequence learning.
To compare movement reaction time and joint kinematics between athletes with recent concussion and matched control recreational athletes during 3 functional tasks.
In another longitudinal study, Hurwitz, Wolff, Bortnick, and Kokas [11] showed that after seven months of Kodály music instruction, children improved significantly more than a matched control group on a motor sequencing task in which they tapped keys synchronously with a metronome, and then continued to tap "in time" after the metronome was turned off.
