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| Terms | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| MacAuthur Communicative Development Inventory | task | No definition submitted yet. |
| maintenance | concept | The process of keeping information in active and immediately accessible state. |
| manipulation | concept | to treat or operate with or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially in a skillful manner; to manage or utilize skillfully; to control or play upon by artful, unfair, or insidious means especially to one's own advantage; to change by artful or unfair means so as to serve one's purpose. |
| matching familiar figures test | task | No definition submitted yet. |
| matching pennies game | task | The game is played between two players, Player A and Player B. Each player has a penny and must secretly turn the penny to heads or tails. The players then reveal their choices simultaneously. If the pennies match (both heads or both tails), Player A receives one dollar from Player B (+1 for A, -1 for B)... |
| mathematical reasoning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| Maudsley Obsessive Compulsive Inventory | task | assess obsessive-compulsive symptoms in the areas of contamination fears and washing behaviors, checking, slowness, and doubting using 30 dichotomously scored (true/false) items, with each pathological response receiving a score of 1... |
| meaning | concept | the thing one intends to convey especially by language; something meant or intended; significant quality; implication of a hidden or special significance; the logical connotation of a word or phrase; the logical denotation or extension of a word or phrase. |
| mechanical reasoning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| mechanical stimulation | task | A mechanical stimulus is applied to the skin and the participant rates the experienced sensation on a visual analogue scale. |
| melody | concept | (Also tune, voice, or line), is a linear succession of musical tones which is perceived as a single entity. |
| memory | concept | The ability of an organism to use past events to inform/influence current actions |
| memory acquisition | concept | is the process of storage and retrieval of new information in memory. |
| memory consolidation | concept | a category of processes that stabilize a memory trace after the initial acquisition. Consolidation is distinguished into two specific processes, synaptic consolidation, which occurs within the first few hours after learning, and system consolidation, where hippocampus-dependent memories become independent of the hippocampus over a period of weeks to years... |
| memory decay | concept | the loss of memory over time. |
| memory guided saccade task | task | |
| memory retrieval | concept | 4 different processes of accessing stored memories: recall, recollection, recognition, relearning. |
| memory span test | task | No definition submitted yet. |
| memory storage | concept | The representation of information in the brain in a form that enables potential retrieval at a later time. |
| memory trace | concept | A residual, and often decayed, neural representation of previous knowledge or experience. |
| mental arithmetic | concept | mathematical calculations done mentally, without writing them down. |
| mental arithmetic task | task | A task in which the subject performs arithmetic computations without an external means of recording their work. |
| mental imagery | concept | is an experience that, on most occasions, significantly resembles the experience of perceiving (through any of the senses) of some object, event, or scene, but occurs when the relevant object, event, or scene is not actually present to the senses. |
| Mental imagery task | task | A task in which subjects create mental images |
| mental representation | concept | a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image. |
| 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. |
| Mental Rotation Task | task | Subjects view rotated letters, numbers, or objects (2D or 3D) and indicate if they are in their normal or mirror orientation; includes variations, but all tasks include mental rotation of stimuli. |
| mentalizing task | task | |
| metacognition | concept | awareness or analysis of one's own learning or thinking processes. |
| metacognitive skill | concept | a learners' automatic awareness of their own knowledge and their ability to understand, control, and manipulate their own cognitive processes. |
| Metacomprehension | concept | refers to the learners' ability to monitor the degree to which they understand information being communicated to them, to recognize failures to comprehend, and to employ repair strategies when failures are identified... |
| metamemory | concept | the learners' awareness of and knowledge about their own memory systems and strategies for using their memories effectively; includes: awareness of different memory strategies, knowledge of which strategy to use for a particular memory task, and knowledge of how to use a given memory strategy most effectively. |
| metaphor | concept | a figure of speech in which a word or phrase literally denoting one kind of object or idea is used in place of another to suggest a likeness or analogy between them. |
| 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®)... |
| Micturition Task | task | Subjects think about voiding urine, provide urine samples, or keep a micturition diary. |
| Mini Mental State Examination | task | The mini-mental state examination (MMSE) or Folstein test is a brief 30-point questionnaire test that is used to screen for cognitive impairment. It is commonly used in medicine to screen for dementia... |
| mirror reading task | task | |
| mirror tracing test | task | No definition submitted yet. |
| misattribution | concept | attributing an event to something with which it has no connection or association. |
| mixed event-related probe | task | When an experimental run consists of blocks of two or more related behavioral tasks. For example, a mixed event-related probe in a classification learning experiment can consist of alternating blocks of probabilistic classification trials and deterministic classification trials. |
| Mixed gambles task | task | Subjects are presented with gambles in which they have a 50% chance of gaining some amount of money and a 50% chance of losing some other amount of money. The subject decides whether or not they would accept the gamble... |
| Modified Erikson Scale of Communication Attitudes | task | No definition submitted yet. |
| Monetary incentive delay task | task | Task in which subject makes a response within a time window and is potentially rewarded for the response depending on their reaction time. |
| monitoring | concept | to watch, keep track of, or check usually for a special purpose. |
| mood | concept | a conscious state of mind or predominant emotion. |
| morphological processing | concept | is how the brain registers the patterns of word formation in a particular language, including inflection, derivation, and composition. |
| morphology | concept | (linguistics) the study of the structure and content of word forms; (biology) the study of the form or shape of an organism or part thereof; (materials science), the study of shape, size, texture and phase distribution of physical objects. |
| Morris Water Maze | task | No definition submitted yet. |
| motor control | concept | The function of supervising motor activities |
| motor execution | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| motor inhibition | concept | The process of attenuating a motor plan. |
| motor learning | concept | the process of improving motor skills, the smoothness and accuracy of movements. |
| motor planning | concept | is the ability of the brain to conceive, organize, and carry out a sequence of unfamiliar actions. |
| motor program | concept | a distinctive, stereotyped pattern of movement carried out by most healthy members of a species; such behaviors are species-typical but not unique to one species, many are shared by a wide variety of species. |
| Motor response suppression | concept | Active suppression of a motoric action that has already been initiated. |
| motor sequence learning | concept | Serial movement or physical action in a particular order in which a person acquires new skills or knowledge |
| motor sequencing task | task | Participants perform several motoric tasks in a specific sequence/order. |
| movement | concept | change of place or position or posture; a series of organized activities working toward an objective; the moving parts of a mechanism that transmit a definite motion. |
| movement planning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| multi-attribute decision making task | task | |
| multisensory | concept | Describes any neural or behavioral process associated with multiple sensory modalities (from, Stein BE et al., (2009) Experimental brain research 198: 113-26. doi:10.1007/s00221-009-1880-8) |
| multisensory index (MSI) | concept | The proportionate difference between a multisensory response to a cross-modal stimulus and the unisensory response to the most effective modality-specific component stimulus (from, Stein BE et al., (2009) Experimental brain research 198: 113-26... |
| multisensory integration | concept | The neural process by which unisensory signals are combined to form a new product. It is operationally defined as a multisensory response (neural or behavioral) that is significantly different from the responses evoked by the modality-specific component stimuli (from, Stein et al... |
| multisensory process | concept | A general descriptor of any multisensory phenomenon, e.g., multisensory integration and cross-modal matching (from, Stein BE et al., Experimental brain research 198: 113-26. doi:10.1007/s00221-009-1880-8) |
| Multisource interference task | task | A task in which the subject must resolve multiple sources of interference. |
| Music Comprehension/Production | task | Subjects listen to music passively or are asked to sing overtly. |