METHOD OF DETERMINING ABILITY TO CORRECT DECISION MAKING Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A61B5/00 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to field of medicine and is intended for determination of ability to correct decision making. Tested person is shown circumference with a mark and a point object, in accordance to which point object is moving on circumference at specified rate, on videomonitor screen. Tested person presses "Stop" button at the moment of supposed convergence of position of moving point object with mark. After that, error of non-convergence of point object and mark is calculated: time of lag error with positive sign or advance error with negative sign. The described procedure is repeated specified number of times, after which evaluation of time of person's reaction on moving object T_p is calculated as the arithmetic mean by formula:

where t_i is i-th lag error with positive sign or advance error with negative sign, ms; n is number of point object stops in the area of mark position. At the first stage of measurements point object stops when "Stop" button is pressed and continues movement on circumference after specified time, with calculation of evaluation of time of person's reaction on moving object T_p by formula I and taking it to be equal T_p1. At the second stage of measurements point object continues movement on circumference without stopping when "Stop" button is pressed, with calculation of evaluation of time of person's reaction on moving object T_p by formula I and taking it to be equal T_p2; with value

being taken as evaluation of ability to correct decision making.

EFFECT: method makes it possible to increase technological possibilities due to determination of reaction time under conditions of simultaneous movement of objects relative each other.

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