delay interval
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdelayandinterval
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delay
noun[C or U]
uk/dɪˈleɪ/us/dɪˈleɪ/
the situation in which you have to wait longer than expected for something to happen, or the time that you have ...
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interval
noun[C]
uk/ˈɪn.tə.vəl/us/ˈɪn.t̬ɚ.vəl/
a period between two events ...
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(Definition ofdelayandintervalfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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To eliminate the memory requirement, there was no contingency between the operations preceding and following thedelayinterval.
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The error rate for the alphabet search that followed thedelayintervalin the nonmemory control task was 1.13%.
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An incidental probe word was presented aurally 2,000 msec after onset of thedelayinterval.
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In the experimental conditions, subjects continued maintenance of stimulus information in the seconddelayinterval, while in the control condition retention was discontinued.
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This difference was sustained throughout thedelayinterval, with no indication of a significant increase as the time of retrieval approached.
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Before thedelayinterval, participants decided whether the priming set contained one word that was unrelated (not associated) with the other two words.
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Moreover, they were unaware of (a) thedelayinterval, (b) whether a given event was old or new, and (c) the specific research hypotheses.
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In control trials, the task at the end of thedelayintervalinvolved adding a visually presented pair of twodigit numbers.
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There was no memory requirement in the poststimulusdelayintervalof the control task.
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Because of hemodynamic delay, the hemodynamic responses were measured in a 4-sec interval starting at the end of the seconddelayinterval.
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In the memory task, a set of three priming words were presented aurally at a rate of one word per second, followed by a 4,000 msecdelayinterval.
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Their approach was to require that the subject retain the same stimulus information in both experimental and control conditions during a 4-sec preliminarydelayinterval.
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This combination of results indicates that there was greater activation of semantic representations in thedelayintervalof the memory task than in the nonmemory control task.
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Nevertheless, the finding that variation of concreteness affects brain activity during thedelayinterval does indicate that semantic processes actively support the maintenance of verbal information in short-term memory.
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Note that the effect of whether the incidental probe word is semantically related or unrelated to the three priming words preceding thedelayintervalis greater in the memory task.
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Pisoni (1973), for example, found that thedelayinterval(0 - 2 s) had relatively little effect for consonants but significantly impaired the within-category performance for vowels.
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