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Go/no-go task based on Redick et al.’s (2011) article “Working Memory Capacity and Go/No-Go Task Performance: Selective Effects of Updating, Maintenance, and Inhibition”.

In this task participants are required to judge which line is longer than the other. This experiment is based on illusion devised by Franz Carl Müller-Lyer in 1889.

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).

Stroop Task

A version of the Corsi blocks task with a 4 x 4 grid of blocks to click on

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Unconscious or, implicit learning (IL) is often described as being instrumental to human social functioning. However, most of the available IL tasks have limited external validity; they use surface stimuli that are not socially relevant. Additionally, the way in which participants exchange information within most of the available tasks departs from the way in which information is being exchanged in real-life social situations. This is a novel task, inspired from Broadbent et al. (1984), assessing the implicit and explicit learning of socio-emotional information in a dynamic environment. Participants interact with an animated virtual avatar that displays different levels of emotional facial expressions. Their task is to regulate the avatar’s facial expression to a specified level. Unknown to them, the relationship between their inputs and the avatar’s state is mediated by an abstract rule. Results from the validation study (Costea, A., Jurchis, R., Visu-Petra, L., Cleeremans A., Norman, E., and Opre, A., 2020 – now in preparation) indicate that learning occurred in the task, as participants gradually increased their ability to bring the avatar in the target state. We found evidence for both explicit (consciously knowing the appropriate response) and implicit (knowing the correct responses even when they based their responses on subjectively defined unconscious mental states) knowledge acquisition. This is one of the first studies to propose a task for studying the role of IL in interactive social situations.

demotesting

posner task for UCLA workshop

block rotation task using Ganis & Kievit 2016 stimuli

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The Jena Voice Learning Test (JVLMT) is a 22 min standardized tool to measure human voice memory capacity. It was devoloped by Humble et al. (2022). For more information see https://osf.io/cyr23/

memorize a sequence of colored squares