Sentence examples for silent rest from inspiring English sources

Each song was played for approximately 2 min and a 16 s silent rest was inserted between each musical excerpt to reduce any influence of the previous song.

Here we report data recorded during the silent rest and task conditions only.

These 2 conditions alternated with a short period of silent rest.

11 Briefly, after 5 minutes of silent rest measured by a sandglass, blood pressure was measured twice for each participant using an automatic sphygmomanometer (Nihon Colin, BP-103iII) at each company, and the mean value was recorded.

Blinks are socially relevant for the perceiver as they can give clues about the mental and physical state of the other person: blinking rate decreases (compared with silent rest) during cognitively demanding tasks (Fukuda, 1994; Bentivoglio et al., 1997; Oh et al., 2012), but rises during conversation (Bentivoglio et al., 1997) and during prolonged wakefulness (Barbato et al., 1995).

Contrasting the response to hearing syllables with the response to silent rest periods revealed bilateral activation clusters in the STG, middle temporal gyrus (MTG), the cerebellum and the pre- and post-central gyrus, and left lateralized activation in the inferior temporal gyrus, inferior parietal and more ventral frontal cortex (including the inferior frontal gyrus) (Fig.  2 A).

Normalized regional cerebral blood flow (NrCBF) was repeatedly monitored while subjects either listened to factual stories (Story) or covertly generated verbs semantically related to heard nouns (Gener), using silent resting (Rest) as a common control condition.

In the silent resting control sessions participants sat silently with their eyes closed and legs slightly elevated on a beanbag for 10-min.

The runs consisted of alternating experimental trials lasting 9 s and silent resting periods (9 s) in which the subjects had to fixate on a cross in the centre of the screen.

This suggests that foot massage was more effective than silent resting in immediately reducing anxiety and lowering diastolic BP.

Three, one-way ANOVAs were undertaken to explore differences in the physiological effect of foot massage versus silent resting (i.e., group differences) on participants' BP and anxiety.