chronometric analysis

a method for studying a mental process that involves varying stimulus input conditions and measuring participants’ reaction times to those stimuli. The relations between the stimulus variables and reaction times are then used to make inferences about the underlying mental processes. Also called mental chronometry. See Donders’s method.

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January 30th 2025

decomposition of movement

difficulty of movement in which gestures are broken up into individual segments instead of being executed smoothly. It is a symptom of cerebellar lesions.