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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).

Participants repeatedly choose between options (arms of a bandit) with different and unknown probabilities of reward. This task models exploration versus exploitation trade-offs.

The Simon task is a psychological test where participants respond to the color of a stimulus, ignoring its spatial location, to measure the effect of spatial cues on reaction time and cognitive control.

Basic demo of the Colavita task

Colavita, F.B. Human sensory dominance. Perception & Psychophysics 16, 409–412 (1974). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03203962

For review see:

Hirst RJ, Cragg L, Allen HA. Vision dominates audition in adults but not children: A meta-analysis of the Colavita effect. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2018 Nov;94:286-301. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2018.07.012. Epub 2018 Jul 23. PMID: 30048672.

The Visual Preference for Facial Expressions task uses eye tracking to measure how long people look at different emotional expressions (like happy or sad faces) to understand attentional biases.

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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