Even though this trend may be significant when testing the larger patient groups, TT may be more suitable for identifying bulbar impairments in the patient groups rather than differentiating between patients with ALS and controls.
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Patient nine also showed a trend toward more sweep errors compared to healthy controls (see Table 4 for statistics), as shown in Figure 3 .
With respect to our fourth hypothesis [(iv) differentiation between patients with ALS regardless of onset type and healthy controls], the group of patients with ALS showed a statistical trend toward completing fewer sweeps compared to the group of controls, while there were no significant differences and no trend toward a significant difference in sweep duration or in sweep errors in the patient group compared to healthy controls (see Table 4 for statistics), as shown in Figure 3 .