A complete neuropsychological battery revealed impaired performance on confrontation naming, semantic fluency, and abstract reasoning (Table 2).
Subject number 5, when assessed 5 years after the onset of symptoms, had performances on confrontation naming and memory below the fifth percentile of healthy controls.
He had impaired performance in confrontation naming (11 of 15 on the Boston Naming Test with multiple semantic paraphasic errors), verbal memory (Hopkins Verbal Learning Test –Revised (HVLT-R): up to 14 items on learning trials, 2 on delayed recall, 8 on recognition with 7 false positives), visual memory, and abstract reasoning (Similarities and Judgment).
Mr. Hoffman's performance flared into anguished life in the crucial scenes of confrontation between Willy and Biff, whose tortured relationship is at the heart of the play.
The whole sense of confrontation is an integral part of their live performance.
The performance of the algorithm was assessed by confrontation of the sequences generated by the algorithm with the observed sequences for the patients.
GALLERIES — CHELSEA RICHARD AVEDON Avedon understood that every portrait sitting was a performance, both in front of and behind the camera, and he knew how to use the drama of confrontation and collaboration to get at something real.
Reduce danger of confrontation & conflict2.
Six weeks of confrontation and chaos followed.
