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
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
In fact, Cummings’ team at Duke was successfully able to monitor the vigilance decrement in their research.
From Slate ● Mar. 26, 2018
He checked the decrement of the reflected radar pulse.
From Pushbutton War by John Schoenherr
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