Fixation durations and saccade lengths can be very sensitive to manipulations of comprehension in reading at both local and global levels (Rayner, 1998), what is currently being fixated in scenes (Henderson & Pierce ,2008; Henderson & Smith, 2009), and manipulations of task in dynamic scenes (Smith & Mital, 2013).
Like motor control, language comprehension is highly time sensitive, and listeners must process the spoken input on-line, at a rate set by the speaker.
The authors found significant correlations with age above 65 years and noted that time measures can be more sensitive for measuring differences in verbal comprehension in this population.
Finally, our research design provides an operational distinction between humour comprehension and appreciation and a sensitive measure of individual differences in humour comprehension accuracy.
Although other tasks, such as picture association, have been used to assess semantic dementia, object naming and word comprehension tasks are also very sensitive to semantic dementia and semantic deficits in stroke.
Participants stressed that actionability might be time-sensitive, and that getting results piecemeal would make comprehension easier.
Commercial fishing fleets are destroying sensitive aquatic ecosystems at a rate that is beyond comprehension.
This novel method allows us new comprehension into the given model: (1) the sensitive parameters of the model at a given parameter set, (2) the "consistently sensitive parameters" specific to the model, (3) the distribution of parameter sensitivity within the model, and (4) the parameter surface.
A normal performance on control questions indicates an unimpaired comprehension of stories and suggest that the task was sensitive in detecting TOM impairments.
To aid comprehension, we symbolically show TRPM8 by a cooling-sensitive switch (Fig. 1D).
Verbal Comprehension and Perceptual Reasoning were the WISC-IV domains most sensitive to prenatal mercury exposure [model 3 β = –0.15; 95% confidence interval (CI): –0.30, –0.004 and β = –0.18; 95% CI: –0.30, –0.06, respectively] (see Supplemental Material, Table S2).
