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| Terms | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| object categorization | concept | of, relating to, or being a speech sound produced by complete closure of the oral passage and subsequent release accompanied by a burst of air, as in the sound (p) in pit or (d) in dog. (from answers.com) |
| 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 |
| oculomotor delayed response | task | a task that requires an eye movement to be made to a cued location after a delay |
| 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 | the sense of smell; the act or process of smelling. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| olfactory perception | concept | the sensation that results when olfactory receptors in the nose are stimulated by particular chemicals in gaseous form. (from www.thefreedictionary.com) |
| operation span task | task | A task in which subjects are asked to perform a simple mathematical verification (e.g., 4/2 +1 = 3) and then read a word, with a recall test following some number of those verify/read pairs. The maximum number of words that can be recalled is the "operation span". |
| orthographic lexicon | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| orthography | concept | the art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage; the representation of the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols; a part of language study that deals with letters and spelling... |