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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 is code for the replication of Seli et al. (2016), which is part of the Collaborative Replication and Education Projects (CREP). I share this for other to try out and use.

Note that this public experiment only involves 2 blocks of 45 trials for piloting purposes. The code in the routine SetBlockLengths allows you to change this (to 20 if you are replicating Seli et al., 2016).

Also note that I disabled actual submitting of data by Never stopping the routine Debrief. This means you can only exit the experiment by pressing 'Esc' and closing the browser window. My settings on Pavlovia are such that in that case no data is saved. If you use this for your own experimentation, you should in the routine Debrief change the settting of Debrief_mouse: 'End routine on press' to 'valid click'.

This experiment demonstrates how to prevent a routine from ending unless a rating has been chosen.

The participant must rate and press the 'space' button to end the routine.

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Modified Emotion Recognition task for Educators4Education (E4E) pilot study, PI: Emily Perkins.

In this task participants are required to sort the presented cards based on a rule. The rule is unknown to the participants, however they receive feedback whether their answer was correct. The rule changes after certain amount of trials. This experiment is based on Grant & Berg (1948) experiment.

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).