retention interval

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retention
noun[U]
uk
/rɪˈten.ʃən/
us
/rɪˈten.ʃən/
the continued use, existence, or possession of something ...
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interval
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪn.tə.vəl/
us
/ˈɪn.t̬ɚ.vəl/
a period between two events ...
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However, the activation of semantic representations necessary for the retention of meaning will continue to be sustained in the postsentenceretentioninterval.
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Transient activation in the left lingual gyrus began during the first phrase of the sentence and gradually diminished during the subsequentretentioninterval.
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As a main result, coherence increased between electrodes over prefrontal cortex and posterior association cortex during theretentioninterval.
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The use of sentences provided an apt opportunity to compare brain activity recorded during stimulus processing with that recorded in the poststimulusretentioninterval.
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This may well be the case when considering the postsentenceretentioninterval, but not necessarily when considering on-line sentence processing.
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Seven- and eight-year-old skilled and less-skilled comprehenders were compared on a sentence recognition task in two conditions varying in memory load andretentioninterval.
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Various studies implicate a rehearsal mechanism needed to keep spatial information activated during aretentioninterval.
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This would not be expected if performance depended on a sensory memory that was lost during theretentioninterval.
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Note that the sustained negativity during the poststimulusretentionintervalin the memory task is larger for words.
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The data are consistent with the notion that phonological and lexical-semantic codes may interact throughout theretentioninterval, as opposed to only during retrieval.
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The long duration transients began during stimulus presentation and continued into theretentionintervalfor approximately 2,500-3,000 msec.
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There were some differences in amplitudes, most markedly for the left and right temporal gyrus waveforms in the postsentenceretentioninterval.
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During the baseline condition, subjects fixated the dark computer screen as in theretentioninterval, except that no stimuli had to be kept in memory.
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When a conscious effort is made to maintain the words in working memory, then the level of activation of their long-term representations remains relatively high during theretentioninterval.
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Brain regions active during theretentionintervalare located mainly in the ventral and dorsal visual processing pathways and prefrontal cortex.
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The panels in the column to the right display the electrode pairs with the requisite coherence during the last 1,500 msec of theretentionintervalfollowing the sentence.
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Also, if working memory slots were used up retaining some of the supposedly unattended sounds, one might expect the capacity to remain fairly constant across a silentretentioninterval.
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The maps are for the activity at selected time points in theretentioninterval: 500, 2,000, and 3,500 msec after offset of the 2,000-msec duration stimulus.
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There is a power function relating probability of recall (or recall latency) andretentioninterval, and these factors are similarly a joint power function ofretentionintervaland frequency.
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Aretentionintervalconsists of a start time and a retention period.
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