decrement

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"There's no good evidence that it causes a long-term or permanent decrement in your memory, but it definitely interferes with people's ability to sort of encode new information."

From Salon • Oct. 17, 2022

And so to qualify for the settlement, they have to show a larger decrement in cognitive function.

From Slate • Jun. 7, 2021

In fact, Cummings’ team at Duke was successfully able to monitor the vigilance decrement in their research.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2018

Cummings studied 27 subjects in a four-hour-long driving simulation and found that, on average, their vigilance decreased after just under 21 minutes—a physiological phenomenon known as the vigilance decrement.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2018

This can relate to nothing else but a society, or body politic, where there is a continual decrement, yet part still remains; and the whole is kept up by succession.

From A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.) by Bryant, Jacob