Response Type

Blink: To open and close the eye

Breath-Hold: Suspension of external breathing

Button Press: To press a button or buttons with the hand or foot

Draw: To compose or create a picture in lines

Drink: To take water or other liquid into the mouth and swallow it

Finger Tapping: Repetitive adduction and abduction of one or more fingers or thumbs

Flexion/Extension: Repetitive adduction and abduction of a body part other than the fingers and thumbs

Grasp: To seize and hold by or as if by clasping with the fingers

Imagine: To form mental images of things not present to the senses

Inhale: To breathe in; draw in by breathing.

Manipulate: To handle or use skillfully in a process or action

Meditate: To engage in thought or contemplation; reflect.

Micturate: To pass urine; urinate

Point: To direct the finger at, to, or upon something

Press: To act upon with steadily applied weight or force.

Read: To look at carefully so as to understand the meaning of (something written, printed, etc.).

Saccades: A rapid eye movement that occurs when the eyes fix on one point after another in the visual field

Smile: To assume a facial expression indicating pleasure, favor, or amusement, but sometimes derision or scorn, characterized by an upturning of the corners of the mouth

Speech: Oral communication; something that is spoken

Swallow: To take into the stomach by drawing through the throat and esophagus with a voluntary muscular action

Whistle: To make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue

Write: To trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe

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