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| Terms | Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
| reading span task | task | A task that requires participants to read series of unconnected sentences aloud and to remember the final word of each sentence of a series (grouped according to the total number of sentences). With each sentence presented on a card, participants were cued to recall the memorized end-of-sentence words in their original order by a blank card at the end of a series... |
| reasoning | concept | drawing of inferences or conclusions through the use of reason. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| recall | concept | The process of retrieving previously stored information, done without the aid of external cues. |
| recognition | concept | The knowledge or perception that someone or something present has been previously encountered. (from http://medical.webends.com/kw/Recognition%20%28Psychology%29) |
| recognition memory test | task | In a recognition memory test, a participant is presented with some or all of a set of "old" stimuli that were encoded earlier, as well as several "new" stimuli that were not previously presented... |
| reconsolidation | concept | the process of previously consolidated memories being recalled and actively consolidated, it is a distinct process that serves to maintain, strengthen and modify memories that are already stored in the long-term memory... |
| regret | concept | to mourn the loss or death of; to be very sorry for. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| rehearsal | concept | something recounted or told again; a practice exercise. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| rehearsal loop | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| relational learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| remembering | concept | the act of recalling to the mind with effort; recalling or becoming aware of suddenly or spontaneously. (from thefreedictionary.com) |
| remote memory | concept | memory for events of long ago as opposed to recent events. (from medilexicon.com/medicaldictionary.php) |
| 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 | a preservation of the aftereffects of experience and learning that makes recall or recognition possible. (from merriam-webster.com) |
| retinotopic map | concept | the orderly mapping of receptive field position in retinotopic coordinates in a brain region. (from www.scholarpedia.org) |
| retrieval | concept | The process of accessing information from memory or other storage devices; the possibility of recovery, restoration, or rectification. (from thefreedictionary.com) |
| 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 | impeded retrieval and performance of previously learnt information due to newly acquired and practiced information. (from Wikipedia) |
| reversal learning task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| reward | concept | A positive return for performance of a specific behavior. |
| rhyme | concept | correspondence in terminal sounds of units of composition or utterance (as two or more words or lines of verse). (from merriam-webster.com) |
| rhythm | concept | Movement marked by the regulated succession of strong and weak elements, or of opposite or different conditions. While rhythm most commonly applies to sound, such as music and spoken language, it may also refer to visual presentation, as timed movement through space... |
| 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 | occurs when the knowledge of discrete points in the environment are interconnected to form linear routes through space. (from http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/~krafft/papers/2001/wayfinding/html/node31.html) |
| routine | concept | a regular course of procedure; habitual or mechanical performance of an established procedure; a reiterated speech or formula; a sequence of computer instructions for performing a particular task. (from merriam-webster... |
| rule | concept | No definition submitted yet |
| rule learning | concept | No definition submitted yet |