What's the difference between oddball and unusual?

Oddball


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) These findings may require a rethinking of specific information processing interpretations of other endogenous ERPs, although the results also indicate that the 'oddball' effect on the P300 and CNV was distinctive in terms of scalp distributions and sensitivity to the manipulation.
  • (2) AEPs were recorded to an "oddball" paradigm from vertex and left and right temporal electrodes.
  • (3) The results suggest that temporally proximal, non-selective rehearsal procedures are sufficient to activate personal knowledge of a salient (oddball), P3-generating stimulus phrase, and that even selective rehearsal of guilty acts is not sufficient without temporal proximity.
  • (4) "But she also divides the critics like that other old-school oddball, Norman Wisdom, who was written off as a witless, irritating idiot with a penchant for falling over by some, and seen as a comic genius by others."
  • (5) Manual reaction times were measured to probe clicks delivered during the presumed time-course of an auditory oddball P3.
  • (6) The P3 component to an auditory "oddball" stimulus was compared between 30 epilepsy patients and 27 age-matched normal controls.
  • (7) The subjects performed the auditory oddball task under conditions of low and high background noise.
  • (8) The effects of age on event-related potentials (ERPs) elicited during a two-tone discrimination ("oddball") task were examined in 97 normal subjects aged from 17-80 years.
  • (9) An auditory oddball paradigm with infrequent stimuli being presented with a probability of 0.20 was used.
  • (10) In the oddball task, P3 did not differ between groups but the patients' N2b was delayed.
  • (11) Since 1993, the festival has also included a free screening of Groundhog Day, which introduced to the world this obscure occasion, previously regarded as the preserve of hicks and oddballs.
  • (12) The LPC elicited by oddball stimuli was not influenced by AVP, neither when compared before and after intake nor when compared to placebo treatment.
  • (13) The ERPs were collected using two different tasks (i.e.,count and reaction time) in an oddball paradigm.
  • (14) With the classical "oddball" paradigm, 78% of the subjects were correctly related to one of the three groups examined.
  • (15) In contrast, target stimulus P300 does not appear to show a decrement across large numbers of trials during performance of the "oddball" paradigm, in which targets and nontargets are highly discriminable.
  • (16) We recorded event-related potentials to an acoustic "oddball" paradigm from 19 scalp derivations in five patients (three women and two men; age range, 44 to 56) who had global amnesia following encephalitis.
  • (17) In an Oddball paradigm, there was no evidence of any left-right hemisphere asymmetry in the scalp distribution of the P300 that varied as a function of the side of surgery in either the left or right temporal lobectomy patients.
  • (18) The American psychiatrists' handbook DSM-5 goes further in this direction than ever, turning life's rich tapestry of oddballs into a grid of disorders.
  • (19) But I’m not a well-known mainstream actor who does studio films.” She is better playing oddballs and square pegs, also-rans and might-have-beens.
  • (20) Skinny legs encased in scarlet cords, boots laced in yellow in tribute to oddball French singer Michel Polnareff, Christopher Owens - the singer and guitarist of San Francisco duo Girls - is rehearsing for a forthcoming appearance at LA's Fuck Yeah festival .

Unusual


Definition:

  • (a.) Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of unusual grace or erudition.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "We examined the reachability of social networking sites from our measurement infrastructure within Turkey, and found nothing unusual.
  • (2) The clinical and radiologic characteristics of this unusual tumor are discussed.
  • (3) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
  • (4) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
  • (5) A marked overlap of input from the two eyes is an unusual feature for a diprotodont marsupial and has previously been seen only in the feathertail glider.
  • (6) Brain damage may be followed by a number of dynamic events including reactive synaptogenesis, rerouting of axons to unusual locations and altered axon retraction processes.
  • (7) HCECs display an unusual combination of cytokeratin IFs and neurofilaments, together with vimentin, and are heterogeneous with respect to their IF makeup.
  • (8) This unusual insertion could affect the interaction of cat CD4 with class II molecules, or with FIV, a feline homolog of HIV.
  • (9) Unusually high cooperativity, specificity, and multiplicity in the protein kinase C-phospholipid interaction are demonstrated by examining the lipid dependence of enzymatic activity.
  • (10) GlaxoSmithKline was unusually critical of the decision by Nice, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence, and also the Scottish Medicines Consortium, to reject its drug belimumab (brand name Benlysta) in final draft guidance.
  • (11) These unusual fractures are not easily detected on the routine three-view "hand-series."
  • (12) Caulobacter flagella are unusual in that they contain two different flagellin subunits.
  • (13) The appearance of unusual isoenzyme patterns in newborn infants and in pregnant women in comparison with normal adults.
  • (14) This case is unusual in that it demonstrated no malignant epithelium beyond that of a borderline tumor, but met the criteria of malignancy because of its invasiveness and metastasis.
  • (15) A 6.4 kilobase C4B-5'-specific Taq I fragment usually provided a reliable guide to the presence of a C4A deletion but unusually in one instance this fragment was found to be a marker of a functioning C4A gene.
  • (16) Clinicians should be aware of this new and unusual association of a cerebral glioma and acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
  • (17) However, it does not and we therefore propose the presence of an unusual DNA conformation in these regions.
  • (18) An unusually high degree of motional freedom is found for both these spin-labels, even in gel phase bilayers.
  • (19) An unusual case of myopathy due to lipid storage in Type I muscle fibers is described.
  • (20) The model electron density map, calculated to a resolution of approximately 35 A, shows an unusually high protein content in the membranes.

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