Time of Orientation and Planning
CM
In all three training groups, this indicator was related to the same time interval in seconds: from the moment the board was displayed until the first step was performed. However, due to the specificity of the training tasks, it measured slightly different functions in the CM and CT groups than in the MT group. In the MT group, the participants were to follow the route in the maze, paying attention to the marked path. In this group, the time of orientation and planning was therefore an indicator of the time needed to get to know the board—of focusing attention and of visual-spatial orientation. In the CM and CT groups, it was an indicator of the time needed to prepare for the task (as in the MT group) and plan the path through the maze. The material on which the participants worked (mazes) was the same for the CM, CT, and MT groups. In the study, the orientation and planning time was averaged for each participant and for all difficulty levels and presented separately for the three training groups.