So we took a group of perfectly healthy, smart individuals and we assigned them to one of two experimental groups, a sleep group and a sleep deprivation group.
The" other symbols" are actually a group of consonants that involve more than one place or manner of articulation, which cannot be placed into one of the slots in the consonant chart.
" And next, there were some letters ... several letters, of which all that can be made out for certain are a group of three followed, immediately after, by a group of two letters" .
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And then there was additionally a pairs division where people could solve together and just, you know, work together as a team and you, you know, each team of two kind of worked out their own system.