Sentence examples for successive choice from inspiring English sources

If retinal carotenoids affect a female's ability to discriminate among potential mates, we predicted that retinal carotenoid levels would be positively correlated with the level of mate discrimination and with the repeatability of the preference function between successive choice trials.

Our results contrast with those from a previous study of DMS, in which strong, cue-selective delay activity survived across a number of successive choice stimuli (Miller et al. 1996).

It conveys the painter's movements and gestures, his "dance" around the canvas and his successive choices of color.

Extensive-form games can be described by a "game tree," in which each turn is a vertex of the tree, with each branch indicating the players' successive choices.

Fisher called a process creative if it involved successive choices between alternatives not themselves fully predetermined and denied creative status to development by deterministic law.

The magnitude of ε was determined by the following 4 rules adapted from [68], [69]: (1) the initial step-size was set to 1/5 of the difference between the maximum and minimum possible payoffs (ε = 200 YEN); (2) at each choice switch ε was halved; (3) ε was doubled after three successive choices of the same item; (4) values were bounded at the maximum (1000 YEN) and the minimum payoffs (0 YEN).

DCE is a robust survey methodology that presents respondents with successive choices between hypothetical treatments.

The effect of increasing the retention interval between successive choices from 5 to 15 s was then assessed.

The effect of increasing the retention interval between successive choices was then assessed (Tonkiss & Rawlins, 1991; Steele & Morris, 1999; Lee & Kesner, 2002).

For each probability and expected value, we used a staircase procedure in which the magnitude of the sure option was adjusted dependent on the choice in the previous trials, converging on the certainty equivalent (or indifference point between the risky and sure choices) after six successive choices.

These incongruent findings could be explained by the fact that Tanabe et al. [ 28] used a modified version of the IGT that prevented successive choices from a particular deck, thereby facilitating correct choices in the SD groups by eliminating the need for cognitive flexibility that is likely to be defective in pathological gamblers [ 26, 30].