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Balloon Analogue Risk Task (BART)

The experiment: ——

This is a simplified (and prettified) version of the BART task by Lejuez et al (2002). Participants have to blow up a balloon that they know will burst at some point. They ‘earn’ rewards for getting the balloons to be larger, but increase the risk of bursting it, in which case they earn no reward for that balloon. The question is, how many times does someone pump each balloon trying to optimise their rewards.

The measure is designed to quantify individual differences in risk-taking.

Analysing your data: ——

You should filter out data where the balloon burst and measure the number of pumps made for the remaining trials.

Notes: ——

WARNING: This is an advanced demo involving lots of code components

This can be extended to be more similar to the original paper by adding further colours of balloons with different bursting profiles.

test1

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)

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 judge whether a string of letters is a word or a non-word. This experiment is based on Meyer & Schvaneveldt (1971) experiment.

Ejemplo

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).

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

Here is a Perception test to identify plosive consonant sounds as in p-t-k-b-d-g. It contains audio files with both Voice Onset Time and Occlusive segments modified to test informants´ ability to discriminate such sounds.

Sustained Attention to Response Time Task (SART)

This SART task is modeled on the framework used in The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)

Participants must press a button (mouse or onscreen) in response to a series of digits and withold responses on the number 3)

Each digit appears for 300ms, with an interval of 800ms between digits. The cycle of digits 1–9 is repeated 23 times, giving a total of 207 trials. The task lasts approximately for 4min

Citations

Robertson I. H. Manly T. Andrade J. Baddeley B. T. Yiend J . (1997). ‘Oops!’: Performance correlates of everyday attentional failures in traumatic brain injured and normal subjects. Neuropsychologia, 35, 747–758. doi:S0028-3932(97)00015-8 [pii]

Aisling M. O’Halloran, Ciaran Finucane, George M. Savva, Ian H. Robertson, Rose Anne Kenny, Sustained Attention and Frailty in the Older Adult Population, The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Volume 69, Issue 2, March 2014, Pages 147–156, https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbt009

This task requires the listener to choose if the set of sounds they will hear is high or low. The caveat is that in most sets we have also introduced background sounds meant to confuse the listener.

fill the water cup

Sustained Attention to Response Task

Task battery A1 (one-4IAR) batch1

Task battery B3 (two:corsi-detect-rotation-2step) batch1