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Examines how reaction times change with the complexity of visual sequences.

Adapted Corsi blocks task for young children. Participants must remember the order in which a series of blocks change colour.

This is an illustration of how to run a jsPsych experiment from pavlovia.org, using the jsPsych pavlovia plugin.

The classic Stroop task.

A demo based on the Eriksen Flanker paradigm. Participants respond to the direction of a central arrow, whilst ignoring distracting flankers.

The classic Stroop task.

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

Sustained Attention to Response Task

In this task participants are required to observe a white dot go around a clock and respond when the dot skips a position. This task is based on Mackworth (1948) experiment.

A demo based on the Balloon Analogue Risk Task. Participants pump a balloon and try to cash in a prize before the balloon pops. Generally used as a measure of risk taking and decision making.

At each stage of this follow-up experiment, you will hear two people speaking one after the other. You will not understand what they are saying. However, after carefully listening to each of them, you will indicate which one sounds the most persuasive to you by completing the sentence below. You can listen to each speaker again by right-clicking on the sound icons.

The Choice Reaction Time Task (Deary & Liewald, 2011)