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Animal stroop task - based on Reynvoet et al 2021 and adapted for children In the Animal Stroop tasks, participants are instructed to respond to one piece of relevant information about a stimulus while ignoring the other, often more salient, piece of information. Two animals picture are presented on each trial simultaneously. Participants need to indicate which animal is larger in real life and ignore the size of the image. Two large animals (elephant or bear) coupled with two small animals (rabbit or butterfly) are presented. 1/2 congruent trials: the image of the larger real-life animal (elephant or bear) is larger than the smallest animal (butterfly or rabbit). 1/2 incongruent trials: the image of largest real-life animal is presented smaller than the image of the smallest real-life animal. Stimuli are a total of 16 pairs: 2 small animals x 2 large animals x 2 size (congr|incongr) x 2 sides (left|right) 16 practice trials with feedback; 48 test trials fixation cross 500ms Stimulus on the screen until a response is given. Blank screen 500ms Response: 'f' key for left, 'j' for right Inhibition is measured by an interference score for each task by subtracting the mean response time (RT)/mean accuracy on correct congruent trials from the mean RT/mean accuracy on correct incongruent trials.

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).

There are two calibration routines in this demo:

ScreenScale (Morys-Carter, 2021) and a version of a Virtual Chinrest based on Li et al. (2020)

Please Cite: Bölling, L., 2022-03-10. Upload and use of local data files in PsychoPy-Online-Experiments [Computer software]. Pavlovia. https://gitlab.pavlovia.org/luke.boelling/localimagetoblobhtmlelement.

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

The Attention Network Task (Fan et al., 2002).

fill the water cup

In this task participants are required to memorise a sequence of square locations. Square position presentation is interrupted by symmetry trails. In symmetry trials participants are required to judge whether the presented picture is vertically symmetrical. Square presentation and symmetry trials are repeated until participants are asked to recall all square locations in sequential order. This experiment is based on Kane et al. (2004) experiment.