Sentence examples for precedent trials from inspiring English sources

These "no precedent" trials served as baseline conditions for the same- and different-speaker conditions, respectively.

This was expected because no difference in motor response should be present pre-naming, whereas after naming, response processing was stronger for precedent mismatch than for no precedent trials.

In each interactive phase, the speaker/confederate named 13 pictures twice in exactly the same way (later serving as precedent mismatch trials or as precedent match fillers) and 8 pictures twice by their location (later serving as no precedent trials).

Each test phase started with 2 filler trials, followed by a random presentation of 8 precedent mismatch trials (named differently than in the interactive phase), 8 no precedent trials (indicated by their location in the interactive phase), 4 precedent match fillers (named the same as in the interactive phase), and 4 other fillers (see Materials and Table  1).

We compared these trials again to the same-speaker, no precedent trials, yet by selecting this subset with the highest probability of deliberation, conform to our behavioral indicators, any activation of mentalizing networks in the pre-naming interval that may have occurred should now become apparent.

The results further corroborate our interpretation that most theta sources observed in the previous analysis and particularly those in typical mentalizing (and related social) areas such as TPJ, PC, TP, and parts of the vmPFC showed significantly stronger activation for same-speaker, precedent mismatch vs. no precedent trials in the post-naming interval.

Blinding both therapist and patients has been performed successful in a precedent trial [ 34], but was not applicable in this trial.

This corroborates the notion that information exchange within the mentalizing network was engaged more strongly for precedent mismatch trials by the same speaker compared with when no precedent had been established during the interaction.

Due to the substantial amount of precedent mismatch trials (see Table  1), participants may have learned to anticipate conflict with the linguistic predictions they generated based on their previous interaction.

The corresponding comparison for different speaker did not reveal a significant effect in theta (Fig.  3, bottom row) or any other frequency (see Supplementary Fig. S1), corroborating the special status of the same-speaker, precedent mismatch trials observed in the behavioral data.

Pakistan's military is watching the trial of the former general closely - correspondents say they are concerned over the precedent the trial could set in a country with a history of military rule.