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TASK
tactile monitor/discrimination
Subjects experience tactile/somatosensory stimulation and are asked to attend passively or discriminate according to some feature (shape, texture, same/different, frequency of presentation, etc.) Also includes: subjects are presented with 3-dimensional objects and are asked to manipulate them in their hands and probe their features.



Definition contributed by MLewis about a week ago.

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Task Indicators







Task records: 2  

  • precision of participant minus precision of controls
 

inhibition of return
  • response time to second stimulus minus response time to first stimulus
 

NPicchetti Initial definition from the BrainMapLex.xls file located in the documentation section of: http://brainmap.org/scribe/index.html
about one year ago


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Definition contributed by BGregory about one year ago:

Subjects experience tactile/somatosensory stimulation and are asked to attend passively or discriminate according to some feature (shape, texture, same/different, frequency of presentation, etc.) Also includes: subjects are presented with 3-dimensional objects and are asked to manipulate them in their hands and probe their features.

Revision 1

Definition contributed by BGregory about one year ago:

Subjects experience tactile/somatosensory stimulation and are asked to attend passively or discriminate according to some feature (shape, texture, same/different, frequency of presentation, etc.) Also includes: subjects are presented with 3-dimensional objects and are asked to manipulate them in their hands and probe their features. (from the BrainMapLex.xls file located in the documentation section of: http://brainmap.org/scribe/index.html)

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Tactile discrimination, but not tactile stimulation alone, reduces chronic limb pain.
Moseley GL, Zalucki NM, Wiech K
Pain (Pain)
2008 Jul 31
Open Abstract | Citation Profile

The effect of tactile discrimination training is enhanced when patients watch the reflected image of their unaffected limb during training.
Moseley GL, Wiech K
Pain (Pain)
2009 Aug
Open Abstract | Citation Profile




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