| Terms | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| abductive reasoning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| abstract analogy | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| abstract knowledge | concept | Knowledge that is general and not tied to a specific instance. |
| acoustic coding | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| acoustic encoding | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| acoustic phonetic processing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| acoustic processing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| acoustic reflex | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| action | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Action imitation task | task | |
| action initiation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Action observation task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| action selection | concept | The selection of one action from a set of possible actions. |
| activation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| activation level | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| active maintenance | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| active recall | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| active retrieval | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| acuity | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| adaptation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| adaptive control | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Adult Attachment Interview | task | No definition submitted yet |
| affect perception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| affect recognition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| agglutinative language | concept | is a language in which most words are made by stringing sets of morphemes together. Modern examples include Basque, Turkish, Hungarian, and Finnish. |
| allograph | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| allomorph | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| allophone | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| altruism | concept | having the motivation to help others without reward. |
| altruistic motivation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| alveolar | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| amodal representation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| analog representation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| analogical encoding | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| analogical inference | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| analogical problem solving | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| analogical reasoning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| analogical transfer | concept | The transfer of knowledge from one situation to another by finding a set of one-to-one correspondences between aspects of one body of information and aspects of another. |
| analogy | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| anchoring | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| anomaly detection | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| anticipation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Antisaccade/prosaccade task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| apparent motion | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| apparent movement | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| apperception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| appetitive motivation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| arousal | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| articulation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| articulatory loop | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| articulatory planning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| articulatory rehearsal | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| assimilation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| association | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| association learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| associative intrusion | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| attachment | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| attended channel | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| attended stimulus | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| attention | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| attention capacity | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| attention shift | concept | The change that occurs when information that is currently active in the mind is replaced by other information. The information content is typically sensory in nature. |
| attention shifting | concept | The process by which information that is currently relevant in the mind is replaced by other information. This information is typically sensory in nature but may also be semantic. |
| attention span | concept | Amount of time or space that an individual can dedicate to particular task or content without becoming distracted. |
| attentional blink task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| attentional effort | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| attentional focusing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| attentional resources | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| attentional state | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| attenuation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| attitude | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| audio-visual target-detection task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| audiovisual perception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| audition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory attention | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory coding | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory encoding | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory feedback | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory grouping | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory imagery | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory lexical access | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory localization | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory masking | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory perception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory scene | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory scene analysis | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory sentence comprehension | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory stream segregation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory word comprehension | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory word recognition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| auditory working memory | concept | Working memory for auditory information |
| autobiographical memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| autobiographical recall | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| automaticity | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| availability heuristic | concept | A heuristic in which people predict the frequency of classes or the probability of events based on the ease with which relevant instances come to mind. |
| aversive learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| awareness | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| babinski reflex | concept | Pathological version of the plantar reflex in the foot. Normal response involves flexing of toes inward upon stimulation of the sole of the foot. Abnormal response (Babinski) involves extension/fanning of toes... |
| backward chaining | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Backward digit span task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| backward masking | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| behavioral inhibition | concept | Disambiguation |
| behavioral inhibition (cognitive) | concept | Often used as a synonym of "response inhibition" to describe the inhibition of actions. |
| behavioral inhibition (temperament) | concept | A temperamental characteristic described by shyness and social anxiety. |
| Behavioral Rating Inventory of Executive Function | task | No definition submitted yet |
| belief | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Benton Facial Recognition Test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| bilabial | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| binocular convergence | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| binocular depth cue | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| binocular disparity | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| binocular vision | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Birmingham Object Recognition Battery | task | No definition submitted yet |
| bitterness | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| blind spot | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Block Design Test | task | The Block Design is a subtest of Perceptual Reasoning index of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale IV. The Block Design test measures spatial perception, visual abstract processing, and problem solving. |
| Block Tapping Test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| body orientation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Boston Naming Test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| California Verbal Learning Test-II | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Cambridge Face Memory Test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| capacity limitation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| case based reasoning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| categorical clustering | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| categorical knowledge | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| categorical perception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| categorization | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| category based induction | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| category fluency test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| category learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| causal inference | concept | The process of defining that one state/object/event determines the occurrence of another state/object/event. |
| central attention | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Central Coherence | concept | A person's ability to understand things in context |
| central executive | concept | The core mental process of working memory that allows for information that is stored in short-term memory to be actively manipulated (e.g., mental arithmetic). The term 'central executive' is typically associated with psychologist Alan Baddeley's "Model of Working Memory". |
| centration | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| chemonociception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Chimeric Animal Stroop Task | task | A task in which participants are shown pictures of chimeric animals (such as a duck's head attached to a cow's body) and asked to name animal that the head belongs to while ignoring the identity of the body, or vice versa... |
| choice | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| choice reaction time task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| chromatic contrast | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| chunk | concept | Structure in memory that is used as a unit of knowledge representation. Also refers to the process of learning by which these units are acquired. |
| chunking | concept | The process of recoding information by splitting or reorganizing it into smaller parts. |
| Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-3 | task | No definition submitted yet |
| clustering | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| cochlear microphonic | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| cognition | concept | The process of thought; includes all psychological/mental functions that allow for subsequent reflection given some information. |
| cognitive control | concept | The top-down modulation of cognitive processes based on higher-order representations such as goals or plans. |
| cognitive development | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| cognitive dissonance | concept | The mental state in which a person holds multiple conflicting ideas simultaneously |
| cognitive effort | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| cognitive heuristic | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| cognitive load | concept | The amount of demand placed on working memory, typically expressed along some continuum and within a theoretical maximum. |
| cognitive map | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| coherence | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| cohesion | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| color perception | concept | The process of distinguishing objects based on the wavelengths of the light they reflect or emit. |
| color-discrimination task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Color-word Stroop Task | task | A task in which single words (including names of colors) are presented in colored ink, and the subject is asked to name the color of the ink as quickly as possible. The ink color may either match or conflict with the color name... |
| communication | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| competition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| comprehension | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| concept | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| concept learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| conceptual category | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| conceptual coherence | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| conceptual planning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| conceptual skill | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| conceptualization | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| conditional reasoning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| conflict detection | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| conjunctive search | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| connotation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| consciousness | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| consolidation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| consonant | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| consonant cluster | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| constancy | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| constituent structure | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| context | concept | A set of interrelated conditions in which something exists or occurs (e.g., a style of language in a particular passage, activity of a given regions given sensory input). |
| context dependent | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| context memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| contextual knowledge | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| contingency learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Continuous Performance Task | task | A task in which subjects are presented with a stream of letters, and must respond to one of the letters and refrain from responding to any other letters. |
| continuous recognition paradigm | task | No definition submitted yet |
| contrastive stress | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| conventionality | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| convergence | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| convergent thinking | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| conversation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| conversational norm | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| conversational speech | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| conversational structure | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| coordination | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| coproduction | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| coreference | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| creative cognition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| creative problem solving | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| creative thinking | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| critical period | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| crosstalk | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| crystallized intelligence | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| cue dependent forgetting | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| cue validity | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| cueing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| culture | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Cups task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| cyclicity | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| dative | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| dative shift | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| deactivation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| decay of activation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| deception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| decision | concept | The outcome of a process during which a choice is made, usually between several possible options |
| decision making | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| decision making stage | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| declarative knowledge | concept | Knowledge that is descriptive and includes knowing "that" rather than knowing "how" (can be expressed in declarative sentences). |
| declarative memory | concept | Memory for facts, and that can be consciously articulated such as by recall or recognition. |
| declarative rule | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| deductive inference | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| deductive reasoning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| deep processing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| deep structure | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| delayed match to sample task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| delayed nonmatch to sample task | task | A task in which an target is presented and then removed from view. This target must be maintained in working memory for a delay, after which it is presented with non-target(s). The participant's task is to identify the non-target. |
| delayed recall test | task | A task in which participants are given information to remember (list of words or paragraph) and which they are asked to reproduce after some span of time. |
| delayed recognition task | task | The subject is presented with a set of stimuli called the target set, and must maintain those stimuli over a delay. A probe appears after the delay, and the subject must respond whether the probe was in the target set. |
| depth cue | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| depth perception | concept | Ability to perceive the visual world in three dimensions. |
| desire | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| determinant | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| diacritic | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| dialect | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Digit span task | task | A task in which participants are presented with sequentially presented digits and are then asked to recall the items. The number of digits that can be correctly recalled provides an estimate of working memory capacity. |
| Digit/Symbol Coding test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| diphthong | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| discourse | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| discourse comprehension | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| discourse knowledge | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| discourse planning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| discourse processing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| discourse production | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| dispositions | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| distraction | concept | Any event that interrupts a mental process. |
| distributed coding | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| divergent thinking | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| divided attention | concept | The process by which an individual can perform multiple non-automatic tasks at the same time. |
| Doors and People Test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| drawl | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| dream | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| echoic memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| echolocation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| edge detection | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Edinburgh Handedness Inventory | task | No definition submitted yet |
| efficiency | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| effort | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| effortful processing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| egocentric | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| elaborative processing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| elaborative rehearsal | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Embedded Figures Test | task | In the embedded Figures Test, the research participant is shown a complex background figure and asked to describe it. After this, the participant is shown a target (such as the outline of a triangle) and asked to locate the target amid the background figure. |
| emotion | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| emotion perception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| emotion recognition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| emotional bonding | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| emotional decision making | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| emotional expression | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| emotional intelligence | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| emotional memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| emotional mimicry | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| emotional recognition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| emotional suppression | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| empathy | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| encoding | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| epiglottal | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| episodic buffer | concept | A theoretical construct that is part of Alan Baddeley's working memory model and the object of which is to integrate information across sensory domains and communicate with long term memory in the service of working memory... |
| episodic learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| episodic memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| ergative | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Eriksen flanker task | task | A task in which participants view stimuli (typically arrows) presented one at a time and to which they must make a simple lexical response. These stimuli are surrounded by either distracting or facilitating items... |
| error detection | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| error signal | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| error trapping | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| excitation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| excitement | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| executive control | concept | A top-down system that manages and controls other cognitive processes, allowing goal-directed behavior. |
| executive function | concept | A top-down system that manages and controls other cognitive processes, allowing goal-directed behavior. |
| expertise | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| explicit knowledge | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| explicit learning | concept | Acquisition of skills and/or knowledge actively and with awareness. Typically such learning is accompanied by meta-awareness - individuals can explain how they acquired the skill/knowledge. |
| explicit memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Extradimensional shift task | task | A task in which multiple (typically two) stimuli are presented simultaneously and the subject must select the stimulus that matches the currently relevant rule. The relevant rule alternates or "shifts" among multiple (typically two) rules... |
| extrinsic motivation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| eye contact | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| eye movement | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| face n-back task | task | Task in which face stimuli are presented one at a time in a continuous stream, and the objective is to detect faces that repeat every n trials. |
| face perception | concept | The process by which the brain and mind interpret and understand a visual face stimulus. |
| face recognition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| facial expression | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence | task | No definition submitted yet |
| false memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| familiarity | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| fear | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| feature detection | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| feature extraction | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| feedback | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| figure ground | concept | The categorized representation of visual stimuli based on differences in contrast. |
| figure ground relations | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| figure ground reversal | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| figure ground segregation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| fillers | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| filtering | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| fixation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| fixed action patterns | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| fluid intelligence | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| focus | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| focused attention | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| forgetting | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| form perception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| formant | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| formant frequency | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Forward digit span task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| framing | concept | Framing is a method of biasing opinions- a framing effect occurs when the description of information, such as a speaker presenting an issue, has an emphasis on a subset of potentially relevant considerations and causes individuals to focus on these considerations when constructing their opinions. |
| fricative | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| frustration | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| function word | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| functional fixedness | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| future tense | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| gag reflex | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| galvanic skin response | concept | A measurement of electrical resistance of skin. |
| gaze | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| gender | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| generalization | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| generic knowledge | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| gestalt | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| gesture | concept | A physical movement that is used for a communicative purpose |
| glottal stop | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Go/no-go task | task | A task in which stimuli are presented in a continuous stream and participants perform a binary decision on each stimulus. One of the outcomes requires participants to make a motor response (go), whereas the other requires participants to withhold a response (no-go)... |
| goal | concept | The desired end-point of behavior(s). |
| goal formation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| goal maintenance | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| goal management | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| goal state | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| grammar | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| grammatical encoding | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| grammaticality | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| grapheme | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| graphemic buffer | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| grasping | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Gray Oral Reading Test—4 | task | No definition submitted yet |
| grief | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| gustation | concept | Form of chemoreception that facilitates taste perception. |
| gustatory learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| gustatory memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| gustatory perception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| habit | concept | An acquired pattern of behavior that often occurs automatically and is reliably triggered by some event or stimulus. |
| habit learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| habit memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| hallucination | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| happiness | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| hearing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| hedonism | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| heuristic search | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| hill climbing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| homonym | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| homophone | concept | A word that is pronounced the same as another word but has a different meaning, such as "nun" and "none". |
| homunculus | concept | An illustration of the amount of physical brain matter devoted to sensory or motor representations of the specific parts of the body |
| Hooper Visual Organization Test | task | a neuropsychological test of visual spatial ability that presents participants with a line drawing of a common object that has been broken into fragments, and asks participants to name what the object would be if reassembled. |
| humiliation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| humor | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| hypernym | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| iconic memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| idiom | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| illocutionary force | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| imageability | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| imagery | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| immediate recall test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| implicit knowledge | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| implicit memory | concept | Type of memory in which experiences increases performance of task without one's conscious awareness of these previous experiences. This type of memory applies to habit learning, skills, conditioning. |
| imprinting | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| inattention | concept | The failure to process an external stimulus (often refers to sensory stimuli). |
| incidental learning | concept | Learning without explicit knowledge of doing so, but occurring through interaction with the environment (e.g., by observation/copying of behavior or response to reinforcement). |
| incubation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| indignation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| induction | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| inductive inference | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| inductive reasoning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| inference | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| infinitive | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| inflection | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| inhibition | concept | The process by which a response (neural or behavioral) is diminished. |
| inhibition of return | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| insight | concept | In problem solving, the moment at which an underlying relation between cause and effect is discovered/identified. |
| instinct | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| instrumental conditioning | concept | A learning process in which the consequences of an action are used to modify the likelihood that that action will reoccur. |
| instrumental learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| integration | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| intelligence | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| intension | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| intention | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| intentional forgetting | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| intentional learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| intentionality | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| interference | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| intermediate term memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| internal speech | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| International Affective Picture System | task | No definition submitted yet |
| interrogative | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| intonation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Intradimensional shift task | task | A task in which multiple (typically two) stimuli are presented simultaneously and the subject must select the stimulus that matches the currently relevant rule. The rule represents the relevant task "dimension"... |
| intrinsic motivation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| introspection | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| involuntary attention | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Iowa Gambling Task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| irony | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Ishihara plates for color blindness | task | No definition submitted yet |
| jargon | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Joint Attention | concept | the process of alerting one person to a stimulus through nonverbal cues such as finger pointing or gazing. It is one of the first signs of the development of a theory of mind in babies and serves as an important step to later language and social development. |
| judgment | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Kanizsa figures | task | No definition submitted yet |
| kinaesthetic representation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| kinesthesia | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| knowledge | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| labial | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| labiodental | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| language | concept | The mental ability to encode and decode information, and translate this information into verbal, acoustic and visual representations, according to a set of rules that are common across a population. |
| language acquisition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| language comprehension | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| language learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| language processing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| language production | concept | is translating a concept or set of ideas into spoken, signed or written form |
| laryngeal | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| late closure | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| lateral inhibition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| learning | concept | The process of acquiring new skills/knowledge/information |
| lemma | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| letter fluency test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| letter n-back task | task | A task in which participants view a continuous stream of letter stimuli. The object of the task is to identify letter repetitions that occur n-trials preceding to the current stimulus. |
| Letter naming task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| lexical access | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| lexical ambiguity | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Lexical decision task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| lexical encoding | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| lexical processing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| lexical retrieval | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| lexicon | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| linguistic competence | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| listening | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| logic | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| logical reasoning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| logical thinking | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| long term memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| loss aversion | concept | The tendency of individuals to be more sensitive to the possibility of losing objects or money than they are to the possibility of gaining the same objects or amounts of money. |
| lying | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| maintenance | concept | The process of keeping information in active and immediately accessible state. |
| manipulation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| mastication | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| matching pennies game | task | No definition submitted yet |
| mathematical reasoning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Maudsley Obsessive Compulsive Inventory | task | No definition submitted yet |
| meaning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| mechanical reasoning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| melody | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| memory | concept | The ability of an organism to use past events to inform/influence current actions |
| memory acquisition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| memory consolidation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| memory decay | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| memory retrieval | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| memory storage | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| memory trace | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| mental arithmetic | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| mental imagery | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| mental representation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| mental rotation | concept | Ability to rotate an object in one's mind; ability to make perceptual judgments on a new spatial configuration of an object. |
| metacognition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| metacognitive skill | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| metamemory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| metaphor | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| MicroCog | task | Overview The first automated neuropsychological battery developed for clinical practice-fast, reliable, extremely efficient Target specific concerns of cognitive impairment in adults with the updated MicroCog™: Assessment of Cognitive Functioning Windows® Edition (MicroCog™ for Windows®)... |
| Mini Mental State Examination | task | No definition submitted yet |
| misattribution | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| monitoring | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| mood | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| morpheme | concept | is the smallest linguistic unit that has semantic meaning |
| morphological processing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| morphology | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| motor control | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| motor execution | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| motor inhibition | concept | The process of attenuating a motor plan. |
| motor learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| motor planning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| motor program | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Motor response suppression | concept | Active suppression of a motoric action that has already been initiated. |
| motor sequence learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| motor sequencing task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| movement | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| movement planning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| n-back task | task | A task in which items (e.g., letters) are presented one at a time and participants must identify each item that repeats relative to the item that occurred "n" items before its onset. |
| naming | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| narrative | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| nasal | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| navigation | concept | The process of controlling the movement of a body/entity/vehicle through space from one point to another. |
| nine-hole peg test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| nociception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| nominative | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| nondeclarative knowledge | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| nondeclarative memory | concept | Memory acquired through experience and which can not be consciously articulated (such as by recall or recognition). This type of memory includes priming, conditioning, skill-acquisition, and habits. |
| noun | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| novelty detection | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| number | concept | Number is an abstract property of sets. |
| object categorization | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| object centered representation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| object detection | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| object identification | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| object manipulation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| object orientation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| object perception | concept | The process of transforming basic visual sensory input (such as contrast, edge, motion, color etc) into a more abstract and semantically identifiable whole. |
| object recognition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| object-discrimination task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| oddball task | task | A task in which stimuli are presented in a continuous stream and participants must detect the presence of an oddball stimulus. The oddball is a stimulus that occurs infrequently relative to all other stimuli, and has distinct characteristics (e... |
| olfaction | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| olfactory perception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| orthographic lexicon | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| orthography | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| pain | concept | An unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage. |
| palatal | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Pantomime Task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Parrott Scale | task | No definition submitted yet |
| parser | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| parsing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| passive attention | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| past tense | concept | refers to a form of a verb that indicates that the action already has occurred |
| pattern recognition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| pavlovian conditioning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| perception | concept | the conscious experience or mental registration of a sensory stimulus |
| perceptual binding | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| perceptual categorization | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| perceptual fluency | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| perceptual identification | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| perceptual learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| perceptual similarity | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| perceptual skill | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| performance monitoring | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| pharyngeal | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| phonation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| phoneme | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| phonemic code | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| phonetics | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| phonological buffer | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| phonological code | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| phonological encoding | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| phonological loop | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| phonological retrieval | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| phonological working memory | concept | The process of maintaining sound information online for a limited amount of time. |
| phonology | concept | The use of variations in sound to relate and organize meaning in language. |
| phrase | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| picture naming task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| place of articulation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| planning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| plosive | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| pluperfect | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| plural | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| polysemy | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Positive and Negative Affect Scale | task | A psychometric scale to measure positive and negative affects in individuals, and both as states and traits. |
| Posner cueing task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| posture | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| practice | concept | The repetition of a behavior in order to improve performance. |
| pragmatic inference | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| pragmatic knowledge | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| pragmatic reasoning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| pragmatics | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| preattentive processing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| preconscious perception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| precueing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| prejudice | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| preposition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| prescriptive grammar | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| present tense | concept | A set of rules in language that express actions/states that occur in present time. |
| primary memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| proactive inhibition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| proactive interference | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| problem solving | concept | Broadly, the mental processes involved in finding a solution to a problem. |
| procedural knowledge | concept | Knowledge exercised in the performance of a task/activity. Its acquisition or structure is often unavailable to the actor. |
| procedural learning | concept | A non-verbal process of knowledge acquisition. |
| procedural memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| procedural rule | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| processing capacity | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| processing stage | concept | A subset of mental operations that are confined some feature space of information within a stream and/or hierarchy of mental operations. |
| pronoun | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| pronunciation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| proper noun | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| proprioception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| prosodic stress | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| prosody | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| prospective memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| prospective planning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| prototype | concept | A most common, standard or basic mental representation of some category. |
| pseudohomophone | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| pseudoword | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Pseudoword naming task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| pyramids and palm trees task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| quantitative skill | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Rapid Automatized Naming Test | task | A task which involves rapidly naming a series of color blocks, letters, and pictures. |
| Rapid Serial Object Transformation | task | A task where two sets of differently colored superimposed patterns of dots rotate in opposite directions. The participant is asked to pay attention to on set of dots. One of the sets of dots will then move across the screen and the participant must say which direction the dots are moving... |
| reading | concept | Decoding symbols to derive their meaning. |
| reasoning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| recall | concept | The process of retrieving previously stored information, done without the aid of external cues. |
| recognition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| recognition memory test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| reconsolidation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| regret | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| rehearsal | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| rehearsal loop | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| relational learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| remembering | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| remote memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| repressed memory | concept | A memory (often traumatic) that is unavailable for recall. |
| resource limit | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| resource sharing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| response inhibition | concept | Suppression of actions that are inappropriate in a given context and that interfere with goal-driven behavior. |
| response selection | concept | The selection of one action from a set of possible actions. |
| retention | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| retinotopic map | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| retrieval | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| retrieval cue | concept | An event or experience that facilitates retrieval of information from long-term memory because of its association to that information. |
| retroactive interference | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| reversal learning task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| reward | concept | A positive return for performance of a specific behavior. |
| rhyme | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| rhythm | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| risk | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| risk seeking | concept | The willingness of an individual to choose an option with a less-than-certain probability of reward over an option with a certain reward of equal or higher expected value. |
| Risky Gains task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| route knowledge | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| routine | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| rule | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| rule learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| saccade | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| sadness | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| salience | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Salthouse and Babcock Listening Span task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Same-Different Task | task | A task which assesses shifting attention. In the computerized version of this task, three spaceships appear on a screen and the participant must determine if the spaceships are all different or all the same... |
| schema | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| search | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| selective attention | concept | When multiple external sensory inputs are present, the process of dedicating cognitive and perceptual resources to one type/set of input and attenuating receptiveness to other inputs. |
| selective attention task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| self monitoring | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| semantic anomaly judgement task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| semantic association task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| semantic category | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| semantic knowledge | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| semantic memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| semantic processing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| semantic working memory | concept | Working memory for meaning |
| sensory memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| sentence | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| sentence completion test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| sentence comprehension | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| sentence processing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| sentence production | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| sequence learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| serial learning | concept | The process of acquiring information in sequence and following an order that must be preserved at recall. |
| serial processing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| serial search | concept | The process of identifying a target within a set of candidate elements by testing the identity of each element against the identity of the sought after target one at a time. |
| set shifting | concept | The process of changing ones behavioral objective. |
| Set-shifting task | task | A task in which participants alternate between two or more judgments typically regarding the same set of stimuli. Accuracy and reaction time are measured for each judgment. |
| shadowing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| shallow processing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| shame | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| short term memory | concept | A limited-capacity and short-lasting representation of information in the mind. The duration of short-term memory is on the order of seconds, while its capacity is on the order of 4 to 9 independent items. |
| sibilant | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Simon task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| simple reaction time task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| skepticism | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| skill | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| skill acquisition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| skill learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| social cognition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| social context | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| social intelligence | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| somatosensation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| somatosensory perception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| somatotopic map | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| sonorous | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| source memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| source memory test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| source monitoring | concept | The process of identifying the the source or context at acquisition of information that has been stored in memory. |
| Span/Supra-Span Test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| spatial ability | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| spatial attention | concept | The allocation or prioritization of mental resources based on spatial coordinates (with respect to the body, head etc). |
| spatial cognition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| spatial cueing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| spatial memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| spatial n-back task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| spatial working memory | concept | The ability to maintain online information that relates to space. This process has limited capacity and its contents are not stored permanently. |
| speech | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| speech perception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| speech processing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| speech production | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| spelling | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Questionnaire | task | No definition submitted yet |
| spreading activation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| stereopsis | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| stereotypes | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Sternberg delayed recognition task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| stop signal task | task | A task in which an external stimulus signals the participant to interrupt an already-initiated motor response. |
| strategic learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| strategy | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| stress | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Stroop task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) Axis I Disorder | task | No definition submitted yet |
| sublexical route | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| subliminal perception | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| subordinate | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| subvocal speech | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| subvocalization | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| suffix | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| supervisory attentional system | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| surprise | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| sustained attention | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| swallowing reflex | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| syllable | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| symbol-digit substitution | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Symptom Checklist-90-Revised | task | No definition submitted yet |
| synonym | concept | A word with a meaning that is similar or identical to the reference. |
| syntactic acceptability judgement task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| syntactic parsing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| syntactic processing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| syntax | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Task set reconfiguration | concept | A change in the task set based on some internal or external cue |
| task switching | concept | The process of switching between two different tasks or goals depending on the context or instructions. |
| task-switching | task | A task in which participants alternate between two or more judgments typically regarding the same set of stimuli. Accuracy and reaction time are measured for each judgment. |
| taste aversion | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Temporal discounting task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| tense | concept | A set of rules in language that allow for expression of time at which a state/action denoted by some verb occurred. |
| Test of Word Reading Efficiency | task | No definition submitted yet |
| text comprehension | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| text processing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| theory of mind | concept | the ability for a person to connect emotional states to themselves and others and understand that other people may have different beliefs, desires, or intentions from one's self. It is intimately connected with the development of a person's ability to analyze and interpret the intentions of others. |
| thermosensation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| timbre | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Tobacco Craving Questionnaire | task | No definition submitted yet |
| tone | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| tonotopic map | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| top down processing | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| trace conditioning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Trail Making Test A and B | task | A neuropsychological test in which participants must connect-the-dots (traverse between items) according to some specified order. In Test A these items are numbers (1,2,3 etc.) and the order is determined by increasing magnitude... |
| transformational grammar | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| traumatic memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| triple code theory | concept | Theory by Dehaene & Cohen (1992) which posits that numerical processing is accomplished through three distinct pathways: a visual code in which numbers are represented as identified strings of digits; an analogical quantity or magnitude code, in which numbers are represented as distributions of activation on an oriented number line; and a verbal code in which numbers are represented as a parsed sequence of words. |
| uncertainty | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| unconscious process | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Underlining Test | task | This test involves finding and underlining stimuli that are among other stimuli. There are four conditions of the test: finding and underlining letters among other letters, drawings among other drawings, real words among nonsense letter strings, and then specific nonsense words among others... |
| Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale | task | No definition submitted yet |
| utility | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| uvular | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| valence | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Vandenberg & Kuse Tasks | task | Paper and pencil Test of mental rotation ability. Participants must are presented with four 3-D block figures and must select 2 from the group which match a reference figure. This test is administered under time contraints... |
| velar | concept | Consonants articulated with the tongue against the back part of the soft palate (the velum) |
| verb | concept | Components of language that express an action/occurrence/state. |
| verbal fluency | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| verbal memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| verbal semantics | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| visual alignment task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| visual attention | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| visual buffer | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| visual imagery | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| visual masking | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| visual memory | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| visual object recognition | concept | is the process of identifying an object based on its visual attributes |
| visual perception | concept | Ability to interpret information from visible light reaching the eye. |
| visual representation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| visual search | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| visual working memory | concept | The ability to maintain visual information online for a limited time interval (~ 4 sec). This information has a capacity of ~15 items and is not stored permanently. |
| visuospatial cueing task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| visuospatial sketch pad | concept | The cognitive construct and mental process of temporarily storing visual and spatial information for online use in operations of working memory (c.f., Alan Baddeley) . |
| vocabulary | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| vowel | concept | A sound that is part of language and is produced with an open vocal tract, so there is no obstruction of air pressure at any point above the glottis. |
| Warrington's Face/Word Recognition Test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence | task | The WASI meets the demand for a reliable, brief measure of intellectual ability in clinical, educational and research settings for ages 6 to 89 years. With parallel forms of WAIS-IIIUK and WISC-IIIUK subtests, it offers the clinician a means of reducing practice effects on repeat testing... |
| Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale—Revised | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Wechsler Memory Scale – Fourth Edition | task | Areas of Assessment Updated Test Structure The WMS-IV has had significant changes to the overall test structure. Based on feedback from customers, we are introducing four new subtests and modifying three existing subtests... |
| WISC-R Mazes | task | This task involves completing a series of increasingly complex mazes. |
| Wisconsin Card Sorting test | task | The participant is presented with stimulus cards with shapes on them. The cards differ in color of the shapes, number of the shapes, and the form of the shapes. The participant is asked to sort these cards into two piles... |
| wisdom | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| word | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| word attack | task | No definition submitted yet |
| word comprehension | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| word frequency | concept | Disambiguation |
| word frequency (token) | concept | is the number of times (typically per million) that the word appears in print (as estimated from a sizable corpus). Token frequency refers to the number of times the exact word (i.e. the token) appears in print. |
| word frequency (type) | concept | is the number of times (typically per million) that the word appears in print (as estimated from a sizable corpus). Type frequency refers to the number of times a word type appears in print, where a word type includes multiple forms of the same word (e... |
| word generation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Word generation task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| word identification | task | No definition submitted yet |
| word order | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| word production | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| word pronunciation | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| word recognition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| word repetition | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| word-picture verification task | task | is an experimental paradigm where a picture of an object is presented along with either an auditory or written word and participants indicate whether the word and the picture refer to the same concept... |
| Word–picture verification task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| working memory | concept | The process of temporarily storing information in short-term memory, rendering it available for online manipulation. |
| working memory retrieval | concept | The process of accessing information that is maintained in working memory; the sub-process by which the contents of working memory are accessed. |
| working memory storage | concept | The maintenance of information of working memory; a sub-component of working memory that allows for contents of working memory to be retained. |
| writing | concept | No definition submitted yet |