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| Terms | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| task set | concept | The set of rules and/or stimulus-response mappings that define how a task should be performed. |
| Task set reconfiguration | concept | A change in the task set based on some internal or external cue |
| task switching | concept | The process of switching from one task or goal to another, 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 | occurs when the taste of a certain food is associated with symptoms caused by a toxic, spoiled, or poisonous substance; generally caused after ingestion of the food causes nausea, sickness, or vomiting... |
| 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 | a nationally normed measure of word reading accuracy and fluency that provides an efficient means of monitoring the growth of two kinds of word reading skills that are critical in the development of overall reading ability: the ability to accurately recognize familiar words as whole units or “sight words” and the ability to “sound out” words quickly... |
| text comprehension | concept | Intentional thinking during which meaning is constructed through interactions between text and reader (from Google Search Link: http://www.dpi.state.nc.us/readingfirst/components/text/) |
| 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 | the sensory perception of thermal stimuli. (from Wiktionary) |
| timbre | concept | the quality given to a sound by its overtones; the resonance by which the ear recognizes and identifies a voiced speech sound; the quality of tone distinctive of a particular singing voice or musical instrument... |
| Tobacco Craving Questionnaire | task | No definition submitted yet |
| tone | concept | vocal or musical sound of a specific quality; a sound of definite pitch and vibration; accent or inflection expressive of a mood or emotion; the pitch of a word often used to express differences of meaning; a particular pitch or change of pitch constituting an element in the intonation of a phrase or sentence; style or manner of expression in speaking or writing; color quality or value, a tint or shade of color; the state of a living body or of any of its organs or parts in which the functions are healthy and performed with due vigor, normal tension or responsiveness to stimuli... |
| tonotopic map | concept | An associative area of the brain that performs a topology preserving mapping of acoustic frequencies on the auditory cortex. (http://www.girardin.org/cgv/report/report-74.html) |
| top down processing | concept | perceptions formed by starting with the larger concept or idea, then working down to the finer details of that concept or idea. (from http://www.alleydog.com/glossary/definition.php?term=Top-Down%20Processing) |
| trace conditioning | concept | a form of classical conditioning in which the presentation of the conditioned stimulus and the unconditioned stimulus is separated in time by an interstimulus interval. (from http://www.jneurosci.org/cgi/content/short/26/34/8702; doi: 10... |
| 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 | a system of language analysis that recognizes the relationship among the various elements of a sentence and among the possible sentences of a language and uses processes or rules (some of which are called transformations) to express these relationships; also called Transformational-generative Grammar... |
| 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. |