Response Role

Definition

The role of response in an experimental condition is played by the behavior which is elicited from the subject by the stimulus in that experimental condition.

Definition Source

JT

Parent Entity

BFO: role

Example

In an auditory oddball paradigm, the role of the response is usually filled by finger movement or button press that the subject performs in response to the stimuli.

Relations to other CogPo Terms

An experimental condition requires something that plays the role of a stimulus. Range Restrictions on various overt and covert responses are listed below. An Overt Response always uses or has a Response Modality.

UsageNote

BrainMap (2009) uses Response only for specific, overt responses made by the subject during the experimental condition. They do not include imagined movement, silent speech, or other covert responses. This is the same as Overt Response. Note also (not used in BrainMap): Covert Response

Comments

In describing the protocol (as a planned process), the response is the desired or requested activity. In describing the actual implementation of the protocol (realization of the process), it is the actual activity which occurs.

Note that part of the behavior which makes up the response may be delayed; in the simplest example is a saccade as a response following a visual cue, in which the saccade is not to be made immediately but after some time interval.

Created Date

2009/11/12

Curator

JT

Curation Status

pending_final_vetting

Subclasses

Overt Response

Covert Response

Range Restrictions

The role can be filled by either covert or overt behaviors.

• Technically these are all instances of overt responses...

• Button Press
• Flexion/Extension
• Saccades
• Speech