manipulandum

English

Etymology

From Latin.

Noun

manipulandum (plural manipulanda or manipulandums)

1. (sciences) Something that is manipulated physically, especially when testing motor skills
   • 1999 March 12, Adam F. Carpenter et al., “Motor Cortical Encoding of Serial Order in a Context-Recall Task”, in Science‎, volume 283, number 5408, →DOI, pages 1752–1757:

     The manipulandum was a vertical rigid metal rod, with a disc attached to the top, which was placed in front of the animal in the midsagittal plane and which the animal grasped with the hand pronated.