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Multicultural faces Cows instead of primates Faces first then animals

In this task participants are required to press either left or right arrow key depending on which way the fish in centre is facing. Participants are required to ignore the direction of the surrounding fish. This is a children version of Flanker Task based on M. Rosario Rueda et al. (2004).

A forward and Backward Digit Span test for Working Memory The test adapts to participnts' answers and a score is calculated following Woods et al. (2012)

Sustained Attention Response Task

In this task participants are required to memorise and recall number series in order. Participants start out with three 3-digit sequences. If participants correctly recall 2 out of 3 three sequences, they progress to 4-digit sequence trials and so on. If participants respond incorrectly on 2/3 trials the experiment terminantes. This experiment is based on the original digit span experiment by Jacobs (1887).

In this task participants are required to memorise a sequence of square locations. Square position presentation is interrupted by symmetry trails. In symmetry trials participants are required to judge whether the presented picture is vertically symmetrical. Square presentation and symmetry trials are repeated until participants are asked to recall all square locations in sequential order. This experiment is based on Kane et al. (2004) experiment.

The Attention Network Task (Fan et al., 2002).

In this task participants are required to press either left or right arrow key depending on which way the fish in centre is facing. Participants are required to ignore the direction of the surrounding fish. This is a children version of Flanker Task based on M. Rosario Rueda et al. (2004).

In this task, participants are required to judge whether a string of letters is a word or a non-word. This experiment is based on Meyer & Schvaneveldt (1971) experiment.

Posner made for feb workshop