Motor performance and speeded response tasks

Movement itself is the object: timing, sequencing, adaptation or speed of a well-specified response; tapping rate, error, completion time and dual-task cost are the measures.

This family contains 5 tasks.

Task	Short definition	Processes
Digit Symbol Substitution Task	Timed paper-and-pencil or computerized task: substitute digits for symbols (or vice versa) using a visible key…	5
Finger Tapping Task	Repetitive single-finger or sequence tapping at fastest or paced rates; taps-per-interval and tap-timing varia…	4
Mirror Tracing Task	Tracing of a figure viewed only in a mirror; error and completion time across trials index visuomotor adaptati…	5
Motor Sequence Learning Task	Repeated execution of a fixed finger sequence; within- and across-session speed and accuracy changes index mot…	5
Psychological Refractory Period Task	Two tasks presented with a short SOA; RT for the second task lengthens as SOA shortens, indexing a central res…	4

Assignments marked for review

The filing of these tasks is a judgement call; the note says why they are here and where else they could go.

Task	Note
Digit Symbol Substitution Task	Speeded symbol coding; processing speed rather than motor control is the usual reading
Psychological Refractory Period Task	Dual-task response-selection bottleneck; no dual-task family exists yet