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In contrast, for short compounds there was a nearly significant first-constituent frequency effect in first-fixation duration.

While the group observing the real aquarium showed a trend for lower heart rate and muscle tension as well as for an increase in skin temperature, none of the group comparisons reached statistical significance.

While participants responded most rapidly following exposure to neutral cue words and most slowly following negative cue words, no difference in latency approached significance (negative versus neutral cue words: t (19) = 1.36, p corrected = 0.57; negative versus positive cue words: t (19) = 0.60, p corrected = 0.91; positive versus neutral cue words: t (19) = 1.28, p corrected = 0.65).

Analyses of expectation bias generally consist of determining whether the anticipatory effects on trials following contiguous trials of one stimulus type show a significant trend toward increasing with the number of preceding contiguous trials.

On the other hand, it is still possible that the highly significant overall effect reported here could be explained by a “filedrawer effect” if negative findings were under-reported for some reason.

Several studies reporting significant or near-significant anticipatory effects were excluded because we could not determine the direction of the post-stimulus effect from either the reports themselves or from email correspondence with the authors (Bierman, 2007 , fMRI component; Hartwell, 1978 ; Don et al., 1998 ; Lehman et al., 2000 , 2001 ; McDonough et

150–250 ms epoch There was no effect of language [ F (2,34) < 0.1],and none of the interactions with language approached significance in this epoch.

It is well possible that an interaction is highly significant with one score, and non-significant with the other score, with obvious consequences on the conclusions of those studies.

A final difference is in the correlation between depressive symptoms and anxiety feelings, which was large and significant in the EA group, but small and only marginally significant in the MA group, suggesting that the meaning of depressive symptoms and general anxiety feelings may differ between the groups. 3 Indirect effects For comparison between groups, Model 3 indirect effects are reported for the EA and MA subsamples.

A similar effect almost reached significance for the comparison of the human versus ambiguous faces.

At PAS = WG there is a clear trend toward high true positive rate and low false positive rate, indicating substantially improved discriminatory power, however with four subjects demonstrating a tendency to underperform on the visual task (false positive rate exceeding 30%).

( 2008 ) found that children who interacted with computers during their intervention time using Fast ForWord-Language or computer-assisted language intervention (CALI), fared as well as children who received one-to-one individual language intervention with a certified SLP or academic enrichment, all of whom made highly significant improvements on standardized language measures.

All intraclass correlations resulted in highly significant coefficients.

We found a significant correlation between the negative symptoms sub-scales of this measure and the summary measure of inhibitory learning, and also a marginally significant correlation with the excitatory learning score.

However, there was a nominally significant difference in the strength of conspiracist beliefs about Kampusch between Time Point 1 ( M = 3.72, SE = 0.09) and Time Point 2 ( M = 3.45, SE = 0.10), although the effect size was small, F (1, 524) = 3.98, p = 0.046, η 2 p = 0.01.

Although only marginally significant, the partial eta squared ( η p 2 ) of.08 suggests that this interaction can be interpreted as a medium to large effect (Stevens, 2002 ).

Although these task variations in deaf signers were modest, and the interactions observed between task demands and visual field effects were only marginally significant, similar patterns were observed across two different sets of stimuli.

( 2012 ) looked at long-term convergence in a small sample of college roommates, and found a marginally significant correlation between self-reported closeness and amount of convergence.

Yet individual differences may be significant.

While arousal effects were only marginally significant in the P200 component, the LPC seems to be robustly modulated by both the arousal and emotion dimension though no interaction between the two factors was observed (c.f., Leite et al., 2012 for similar finding when participants had to view pictures).

Such genetic biases would generally act as cultural attractors over relatively large time periods, so the increased time-window for language history suggests that there may be significant numbers of such effects yet to be discovered.

When education and vocabulary were controlled, the group differences remained virtually unchanged for the self-report measures, but became only marginally significant for the BWP.

Discussion The results of the two-stream RSVP with the standard series of distractors showed, as expected, a clear-cut LVF advantage in T2 identification, while T1 was identified equally well in both VFs, with a small trend to a RVF advantage.

Furthermore, the results showed an expected trend of increase in intertemporal decision making at retest suggesting that intertemporal decision making benefited from repeated task exposure.

Discussion Participants with false intent showed a significantly lower blink count difference and lower number of blinks for the Explosive Intent questions as compared to the Drug Intent questions, with the difference in maximum blink duration approaching significance, as compared to participants with truthful intent.