Table 4 Experiments 1A (blocked presentation in training) and 1B (random presentation in training): Overview of the tasks administered in the training sessions and the test session Exp.
As each object noun was associated with three sentences (see Materials), the tasks administered in Sessions 2 and 3 featured a maximum of 72 sentences in total.
A detailed description of the tasks administered to the two groups of subjects during training is given in Table 2. None of the subjects was able to perform any of the trained exercises before entering the study.
A moderate correlation of 0.62 was observed in the Maze Learning task administered 1 month after the baseline testing among Chinese adults with schizophrenia [ 25].
It was almost identical to the last task administered in training, except that participants received no feedback and were exposed to only half of the trained material.
The reaction time task, administered to ensure vigilance, required the subject to watch a series of squares in blue, green, yellow and red and press a button whenever the red square appeared.
The visual line-bisection task administered to normally cycling women showed different patterns of the interhemispheric interactions during menses and the midluteal cycle phase.
However, unlike in the blocked listen-and-repeat task administered earlier, participants produced the sentence for each action immediately and did not wait for the three actions for a creature to be completed.
Our preliminary findings suggest that the degree to which different parts of the brain's memory circuits are "in synch" predicts how well a person will perform on a memory task administered in the next 10-20 minutes.
