{"id":7966,"date":"2019-05-22T16:02:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/finger-tapping_task\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:02:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:35","slug":"finger-tapping_task","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/finger-tapping_task\/","title":{"rendered":"Finger-tapping task"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In such tasks, the participant must tap the forefinger of each hand at a specified rate, either at a &#8216;comfortable&#8217; (self-paced) rate or &#8220;as fast as you can.&#8221; &nbsp;Some investigators complicate the task by requiring both hands to tap a regular rhythm, but with one hand tapping twice for each single tap of the other (polyrhythmic tapping). &nbsp;For right-handers, tapping normally is faster when the right hand taps at the faster rate, whereas no group differences appear for left- handers.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"bimanual_task\">Bimanual task<\/a>, <a href=\"hand_preference\">Hand preference<\/a>, <a href=\"hand_proficiency\">Hand proficiency<\/a>, <a href=\"handedness_-bimanual_versus_unimanual-\">Handedness (bimanual versus unimanual)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In such tasks, the participant must tap the forefinger of each hand at a specified rate, either at a &#8216;comfortable&#8217; (self-paced) rate or &#8220;as fast as you can.&#8221; &nbsp;Some investigators complicate the task by requiring both hands to tap a regular rhythm, but with one hand tapping twice for each single tap of the other &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/finger-tapping_task\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Finger-tapping task&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}