“…Given that motor retardation is a common feature of depression (American Psychiatry Association, 2013;Caligiuri & Ellwanger, 2000), tests of fine psychomotor performance, such as the Finger Tapping Test (FTT), have been widely utilized in several studies on depression (Arnold et al, 2005;Bashir, Khade, Kosaraju, Kumar, & Rani, 2013;Caligiuri & Ellwanger, 2000;Hill, Keshavan, Thase, & Sweeney, 2004;Hueng et al, 2011;Kertzman et al, 2010;Lampe, Sitskoorn, & Heeren, 2004;Meyer et al, 2006;Rohling, Green, Allen, & Iverson, 2002;Schrijvers, Hulstijn, & Sabbe, 2008;Swann, Katz, Bowden, Berman, & Stokes, 1999) proving to be reliable to access impairments and discard malingering (Arnold et al, 2005;Rohling et al, 2002).…”