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| 1. Bechera's Gambling Task | Bechera's Iowa Gambling Task ®
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| Choose from four decks, each choice with a cost and each providing reward. Used for tests of executive control |  |
| 2. The "Hungry Donkey" Task | A version of Bechera's Gambling Task for children | The donkey chooses from four doors, each door has a cost and reward in apples. Used for tests of executive control |  |
| 3. TOAV: Test of Attentional Vigilance | TOVA®: Test of Variables of Attention
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| 22-minute test requiring subject to detect a rare visual stimulus (top or bottom). Used to diagnose ADD, ADHD, etc. |  |
| 4. PEBL Continuous Performance Test | CCPT: Conners Continuous Performance Task
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| 14-minute vigilance test requiring subject respond to non-matches. Used to diagnose ADD, ADHD, etc. |  |
| 5. PEBL Perceptual Vigilance Task (PPVT) | Wilkinson & Houghton's Psychomotor Vigilance Task
wikipedia | A vigilance task used to detect vigilance and sleep lapses.
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| 6. Berg's Card Sorting Test | Berg's (1948) Wisconsin Card Sorting Test®
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| Sort multi-attribute cards into piles according to an unknown and changing rule.
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| 7. Simple Response Time |
A common laboratory test
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| Detect the presence of a visual stimulus, as quickly and accurately as possible |  |
| 8. Digit Span
| A component of many intelligence tests
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| Remember a sequence of digits |  |
| 9. Partial Report Procedure | Lu et al.'s (2005) update of Sperling's iconic memory procedure.
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| May provide an early-warning sign for Alzheimer's. |  |
| 10. Implicit Association Test
| A test of automatic associations between memory representations.
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| Tests association between two sets of binary classifications. |  |
| 11. Tower of London | Traditional problem solving/planning task
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| Tests ability to make and follow plans in problem solving task.
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| 12. Symbol Counter Task | Garavan (2000) counter task | Useful indicator of executive control |  |
| 13. Four choice response time
| Wilkinson & Houghton's 4-choice response time
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| Respond to a plus sign that appears in one of four corners of the screen
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| 14. Time Wall | UTCPAB's Time wall
| Estimate the time when a moving target will reach a location
behind a wall
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| 15. PEBL Compensatory Tracker
| Similar to Makeig & Jolley's CompTrack | Use mouse/trackball to
keep a randomly moving target inside a bullseye.
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| 16. Lexical Decision | Meyer & Schvaneveldt's LDT
wikipedia | Determine whether a stimulus is a word or nonword.
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| 17. Mental Rotation | Shepard's mental rotation task
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| Determine whether two figures are identical, subject to rotation.
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| 18. Matrix Rotation | UTC test battery matrix rotation
| Determine whether a 6x6 matrix is the same (with rotation) as another.
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| 19. Spatial Cueing | Posner's attentional cueing (spotlight)
task.
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| Given a probabilistic cue of where a stimulus will appear, respond
as fast as possible.
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| 20. Two column addition
| UTC test battery's 2-column addition
| Add three two-digit numbers and respond quickly and accurately.
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| 21. Stroop task
| Stroop's attention task
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| Respond to either the color or name of stimuli
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| 22. PEBL Manual Dexterity
| original
| Move a noisy cursor to the target
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23. PEBL Trail-making test
| Version of Reitan's (1958) Trail-making A and B tests.
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| Connect the dots
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| 24. Aimed Movement (Fitts's Law) test
| Original
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| Mouse-driven implementation of classic perceptual-motor task
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| 25. Pursuit Rotor task
| Classic mechanical test device
| Mouse-driven motor pursuit
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| 26. Match to sample task
| Classic non-visual short-memory task
| Match a matrix pattern to one presented after a delay
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| 27. Corsi block test
| Version of physical "Corsi block-tapping test"
| Measure of visual-spatial working memory
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| 28. Change Detection test
| Version of numerous change blindness paradigms
| Assess whether participant sees change in a display of colored circles
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| 29. Clock Test
| Mackworth's Sustained attention test
| Watch a clock, and respond whenever it skips a beat.
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| 30. Device Mimicry Test
| Novel test
| Operate a 4-df etch-a-sketch to recreate paths produced by the computer
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| 31. Item-Order Test
| UTCPAB test
| Assess two consecutive letter strings, and determine whether they
are the same or different. Different trials are creating either by
changing identity of a letter or the order of two adjacent letters.
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| 32. Letter-Digit substitution
| UTCPAB and Wechsler tests
| Recode stimuli according to a letter-digit code chart
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| 33. Math Processing
| UTCPAB test
| Do simple arithmetic problems
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| 34. Memory Span (Visual)
| Classic experimental paradigm
| See a sequence of items, then respond using mouse or touchscreen.
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| 35. Object Judgement
| Common experimental paradigm
| Determine whether two polygons are identical, while manipulating
shape, orientation, size.
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| 36. Pattern Comparison Test
| UTCPAB test
| Examine two grid patterns and determine whether they are the same.
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| 37. Probability Monitor
| UTCPAB Test
| Watch a set of gauges to determine when one gets a hit.
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| 38. Situation Awareness Test
| Novel design
| Watch a set of moving targets and respond to probes about their
locations and identitiies.
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| 39.Comfort scales
| Unknown
| Respond to four visual-analytic scales about different dimensions
of comfort
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| 40. Speed tapping test
| Reitan test battery
| Tap a key as quickly as possible
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| 41. Time tapping test
| UTCPAB Test #19
| Tap for a production period at a prespecified pace.
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| 42. Tower of Hanoi test
| Classic puzzle and cognitive test of planning
| Solve game with disks.
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| 43. Two-column addition
| UTCPAB test
| Do mental arithmetic of at least three two-digit summands.
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| 44. Visual Search
| Classic paradigm
| Find the target amidst clutter.
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| 45. Attentional Network Task
| Fan et al.'s ANT
| Assess three types of attention.
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| 46. PEBL
Balloon
Analog Risk Task
| LeJuez et al's BART
| Assess three types of attention.
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| 47. Dot
Judgment Task
| Novel PEBL Task
| Determine which field has more dots
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| 48. Flanker Task
| Eriksen's Flanker Task
| Make direction response with distraction
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| 49. Go/No-go Task
| Bezdjian's 2009 Implementation
| Classic continuous performance task
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| 50. Manikin Task
| UTC-PAB Manikin Task
| Assess mental rotation
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| 51. TLX Workload Assessment
| NASA's TLX workload assessment
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| Assess workload of task on multiple dimensions
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| 52. Muller-Lyer
Illusion
| Classic perceptual illusion
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| Psychometric study of Illusion
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| 53. Oddball
Task
| Version of Huettel's implementation
| Respond to a stimulus dimension overshadowed by irrelevant dimension.
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| 54. Simon Task
| Simon's S-R compatibility test
| Respond to a stimulus dimension, overshadowed by spatial location.
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| 55. Switcher Task
| Original Task
| Respond to a matched and changing stimulus dimension.
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