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. 2017 Nov 28;7:16512. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-16673-y

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Stimulus examples. Communication Value Task sentences are presented for the surgeon condition with the highest and lowest SNR (e.g., “Please do not take aspirin 24 hours before your surgery”; “You should not eat or drink after midnight”). Participants responded using a key-press whether or not the information would be important to their health, to view the stimulus again, or to quit the trial and make no health importance decision. The same Matlab function was used to add noise to orthographic stimuli and vary SNR for a text recognition in noise test. Participants were instructed to type the upper- and lower-case letters that they could identify (e.g., UxMs; HdRk). The correctly typed letters were summed to produce a measure of text recognition in noise that required the same ability to the recognize words that were presented in the Communication Value Task.