The participants who completed the descriptive task under the pre-task and no planning conditions produced more complex language than those who carried out the same task under the online planning condition although the differences did not reach significance level.
In his view, minerals gave rise to the most basic forms of plants, more complex plants gave rise to simple animals, and simple animals produced more complex animals in a gradual progression.
The verbal-fluency task produced more complex features in the extracranial projections during the task period.
Following this logic, Stefansson proclaimed that 'colder climates produced more complex and highly evolved civilizations than tropical ones', partly because of enervating heat and partly because the tropics produced food so easily that strong, fit bodies were not required (3).
We immediately recognized that mutations involving the arginine residue at codon 402 resulted in phenotypes indistinguishable from those associated with mutations of the LIS1 gene, while mutations at other codons produced more complex forms of LIS.
Interviews would likely have produced more complex and nuanced results because they would have allowed us to explore the relationship between medical education and its impact on physician empathy in greater depth.
