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A demo based on the Lexical Decision Task. Participants judge if words are real words or non words as fast and accurately as possible.

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.

A basic demo of a go no-go task.

IOWA Gambling Task (IGT) 4 Choices (2 Bad Deck-A&B, 2 Good Deck, C&D) For Gains/Losses conditions: GainLosConds.xlsx

The classic Stroop task.

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)

Go/No-go Test

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