To maximize behavioral specificity, we designed a tightly controlled verbal task comprised of sets of single sentences – sentences identical except for the type of mental state specified in the verb (belief, emotion, perception, syntax control).
The de-briefing task comprised of nine questions and refers to the purpose of the experiment and the colours employed within.
The task comprised of the same time estimation paradigm used in the previous experiments and explicit and assigned feedback stimuli were presented both randomly mixed and block-wise.
A DCE consists of several choice tasks and in this study each choice task comprised of two hypothetical scenarios (unlabelled) and an opt-out option (see Figure 1 for a choice task example).
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to evaluate changes in the blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) signal in young healthy adults during performance of a computerized KPT dual task (comprised of reading comprehension and picking out vowels) and compared it to its single task components (reading or vowel pick-out alone).
Langdon et al, used a task comprised of 4 card black and white cartoon picture sequences of four varieties: social script stories testing logical reasoning about people without needing to infer mental states, mechanical stories testing Physical cause and effect reasoning, false belief stories testing general mind reading abilities and capture stories testing inhibitory control.
Piano chord and tone pairs for the 2 activation tasks comprised 250 ms of silence, 1 s of arpeggiated piano chord, 250 ms of silence, and 500 ms of piano tone.
Indirect patient care tasks comprised a mean of 2 h (23%) of the FP workday in the Matosinhos Local Health Unit. 10 This study included only a small sample of doctors in one district.
It was expected that the following five core tasks comprised the aspects of an immunization visit where clinic staff members collected/recorded client data: (i) Client registration/check-in: client's demographic information (name, sex, date of birth, postal code, health number etc).
To address the relative sensitivity of individual tasks comprising each of the two batteries, we calculated the proportion of patients whose performance was impaired on each test.
