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Perceptual narrowing is a highly significant development associated with the first year of life.

Interestingly, compared to the contralateral condition, the SSVEP amplitude elicited by the 20 Hz flicker stimulus presented ipsilateral to the cue showed a trend of early enhancement and subsequent inhibition; however, this trend was not significant in the 801~1,400 ms period.

Hierarchical multiple regression analysis ( Table 4 ) showed that sex, level of study, and instrument group best predicted ISS (6%) and FVE (7%) when fitted together, as well as SCA (4%) but with a marginal significance.

To sum up, the strongest changes in the GFP were found for novel stimuli and younger participants showed a trend to more pronounced GFP activity compared with older participants.

Although Snyder (2000) only showed a marginally significant effect of satiation, Hiramatsu (2000) , Francom (2009) , and Chaves and Dery (2014) have found significant satiation effects for Subject islands.

(Despite apparent graphical differences at word 6, the sentence-by-trial interaction is not significant; it approaches marginal significance: β = 60.14, SE = 37.26, | t | = 1.614.

The model results showed that both the prospective and retrospective component had an increasing trend as the duration of the filler task increased.

When the ongoing task duration increased from 3 to 15 min, there was a significant trend of increasing before decreasing.

In line with H2b, a marginally significant effect showed higher intentions for future energy conservation for participants in the norm-based intervention technique.

To formally verify differences in the mothers’ use of MSL categories as a function of children’s age, we performed a MANOVA (multivariate analysis of variance) that has showed a significant difference in the use of communicative terms [ F (2,27) = 4.498; p = 0.021; η 2 = 0.44] with a decreasing trend: mothers of younger children utilized more communicative terms ( M = 25.93, SD = 11.70) than mother of the 5.05-year-old children ( M = 20.03, SD = 10.19) and the 5.11-year-old children ( M = 12.17, SD = 8.15).

For alcohol dependence, Phelan ( 2013 ) reported fewer words recalled over Trials I-V for alcohol dependent participants (approaching significance), and alcohol dependence was also associated with poorer recognition performance.

Moreover, there has been an increasing trend in the share of bicyclist fatalities regarding overall road fatalities in EU countries in the last few years ( Evgenikos et al., 2016 ).

In an fMRI study from our group (Kircher et al., 2007 ), patients with schizophrenia showed borderline significance in their impairment in a semantic connotation task with novel metaphors.

Using the same metaphors but more subjects, this group effect was clearly significant in another study (Schneider et al., 2015 ).

Interaction effects between cultural consonance and the two measures of cultural competence were also assessed; neither of those interaction effects approached significance.

Yet, there are also quite significant differences, suggesting disparate views of what a successful academic career, or successful academic progression, means.

Although results regarding the duration of the last fixation on the ball showed only marginally significant differences, we argue that the duration of the last fixation did not decrease with the higher salience of the distractor (the goalkeeper) because of a further need for visual processing, but because shorter durations reflected some kind of allocation of attention toward the distal target and the goalkeeper.

In every analysis, a probability of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant ( * ) and less than 0.01 as highly significant ( ** ).

The main effect of modality [ F (1, 38) = 4.020, p = 0.052, η2 = 0.096] approached significance with the activity of CS generally higher for static ( M = 0.007, SE = 0.047) than dynamic [ M = −0.094, SE = 0.050] facial expressions.

Although the correlation coefficient was only marginally significant, the histrionic self-presentation style was associated with the total number of punch lines created across the six cartoons as hypothesized.

When harm is done to an in-group member, guilt evaluation of the same highly mobile urban participants increases, but is only marginally significant.

Finally, there was a numerical trend such that subjects were more successful in reaching agreements with the unfair agent than with the fair agent ( M fair = 60%, SE = 4%; M unfair = 75% points, SE = 3%), but this effect did not reach significance ( Z = 1.07, n.s.).

There was a small trend such that participants scored more points as the experiment progressed, but this effect did not reach significance [Estimate = 1.05, SE = 0.61, t (102) = 1.7, p = 0.09].

However, this was qualified by an interaction that approached significance; users were, if anything, more persuaded by informational influence when they believed the agent was AI (compared to a human), whereas there was no difference between AI and human framing in the normative influence condition.

The amplitudes of the theta and alpha activities in the frontal area showed a similar pattern of significant correlation (including correlation with trend toward significance) as a whole (except for the alpha activity at the left frontal).