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The New Zealand-born flanker was declared fit late on Monday.
The replacement flanker scored Gloucester's second try.
He is a quarterback turned flanker.
As a flanker, he will frequently be put in motion and will also line up in the slot.

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Examples of flanker

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The contrast of the target varied widely from 2 to 80% and that of flankers was set high at either 50 or 80%.
Reduced facilitation effect of collinear flankers on contrast detection reveals impaired lateral connectivity in the visual cortex of schizophrenia patients.
We found that flankers interfered with target selection only when targets and flankers differed on the goal-relevant dimension.
First, flankers did have a significant effect on target threshold in the inhibitory range which suggests that sufficient attentional resources were allocated.
The collinear flankers facilitated target detection, resulting in lower contrast threshold for the target compared with that in the orthogonal condition.
In healthy controls, contrast threshold is lower in the collinear condition than in the orthogonal condition, because collinear flankers facilitate target detection.
The two flanker faces differ from the central face, but are identical to each other in identity and expression.
Measurements with collinear and orthogonal flankers were performed in separate blocks, which were counterbalanced across the participants.
During each flanker block, the target-toflanker distance was constant, whereas in controls blocks, subjects detected the isolated target in the absence of flankers.
In its simplest form, the flanker task requires that a central target be identified with a specific manual response.
Accordingly, correct responses in the reverse condition were considerably slower than those in the conventional flanker task condition.
Second, our data analysis included no cells having measurable responses to high-contrast flankers alone.
One way to avoid this potential confound is to investigate whether the simultaneous presentation of "flankers" together with the test grating produce similar effects.
There was no significant difference between the noflanker and congruent flanker conditions.
We investigated responses to foveally presented stimuli in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls as they performed unidimensional and bidimensional versions of the flanker task.
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