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| Tasks | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Action imitation task | task | A task in which a participant sees another person perform an action and later performs the same action him/herself. Imitation can be immediate or delayed. It can be instructed or elicited implicitly (without the participant's conscious awareness)... |
| Action observation task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Adult Attachment Interview | task | a procedure for assessing adults' strategies for identifying, preventing, and protecting the self from perceived dangers, particularly dangers tied to intimate relationships. (from http://www.patcrittenden... |
| Antisaccade/prosaccade task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| attentional blink task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| audio-visual target-detection task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| AX-CPT task | task | A version of the continuous performance task in which subjects are told to make one response for the letter X when it was preceded by the letter A, and another response for all other stimuli. |
| Backward digit span task | task | a test used to measure working memory, attention, concentration, and mental control. In a typical test of memory span, a list of random numbers or letters is read out loud or presented on a computer screen at the rate of one per second... |
| Behavioral Rating Inventory of Executive Function | task | used for evaluating and planning treatment strategies for a wide spectrum of developmental and acquired neurological conditions, including learning disabilities, low birth weight, ADHD, Tourette's disorder, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Autism; consists of 8 non-overlapping clinical scales that form two broader indexes: Behavior Regulation (three scales) and Metacognition (five scales)... |
| Benton Facial Recognition Test | task | A tool used to assess deficits in facial recognition. |
| Birmingham Object Recognition Battery | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Block Design Test | task | The Block Design is a subtest of Perceptual Reasoning index of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale IV. The Block Design test measures spatial perception, visual abstract processing, and problem solving. |
| Block Tapping Test | task | tool used for assessment of the capacity of the visual short-term memory and of the implicit visual-spatial learning. (from http://www.lafayetteevaluation.com/product_detail.asp?ItemID=359) |
| Boston Naming Test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| California Verbal Learning Test-II | task | A comprehensive and detailed assessment of verbal learning and memory available for older adolescents and adults. In addition to recall and recognition scores, it measures encoding strategies, learning rates, error types, and other process data... |
| Cambridge Face Memory Test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| category fluency test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Chimeric Animal Stroop Task | task | A task in which participants are shown pictures of chimeric animals (such as a duck's head attached to a cow's body) and asked to name animal that the head belongs to while ignoring the identity of the body, or vice versa... |
| choice reaction time task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Clinical Evaluation of Language Fundamentals-3 | task | 3rd edition of an assessment used to evaluate the nature and extent of language difficulties in school children and adolescents. (from www.psychcorp.co.uk/Psychology) |
| color-discrimination task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Color-word Stroop Task | task | A task in which single words (including names of colors) are presented in colored ink, and the subject is asked to name the color of the ink as quickly as possible. The ink color may either match or conflict with the color name... |
| Continuous Performance Task | task | A task in which subjects are presented with a stream of letters, and must respond to one of the letters and refrain from responding to any other letters. |
| continuous recognition paradigm | task | No definition submitted yet |
| CPT | task | A continuous performance task |
| Cups task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| delayed match to sample task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| delayed nonmatch to sample task | task | A task in which an target is presented and then removed from view. This target must be maintained in working memory for a delay, after which it is presented with non-target(s). The participant's task is to identify the non-target. |
| delayed recall test | task | A task in which participants are given information to remember (list of words or paragraph) and which they are asked to reproduce after some span of time. |
| delayed recognition task | task | The subject is presented with a set of stimuli called the target set, and must maintain those stimuli over a delay. A probe appears after the delay, and the subject must respond whether the probe was in the target set. |
| Digit span task | task | A task in which participants are presented with sequentially presented digits and are then asked to recall the items. The number of digits that can be correctly recalled provides an estimate of working memory capacity. |
| Digit/Symbol Coding test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Doors and People Test | task | Doors and People is a test of long-term memory. It yields a single age-scaled overall score which can be ‘unpacked’ to give separate measures of visual and verbal memory, recall and recognition, and forgetting... |
| Edinburgh Handedness Inventory | task | a measurement scale used to assess the dominance of a person's right or left hand in everyday activities. (from Wikipedia) |
| Embedded Figures Test | task | In the embedded Figures Test, the research participant is shown a complex background figure and asked to describe it. After this, the participant is shown a target (such as the outline of a triangle) and asked to locate the target amid the background figure. |
| Eriksen flanker task | task | A task in which participants view stimuli (typically arrows) presented one at a time and to which they must make a simple lexical response. These stimuli are surrounded by either distracting or facilitating items... |
| Extradimensional shift task | task | A task in which multiple (typically two) stimuli are presented simultaneously and the subject must select the stimulus that matches the currently relevant rule. The relevant rule alternates or "shifts" among multiple (typically two) rules... |
| face n-back task | task | Task in which face stimuli are presented one at a time in a continuous stream, and the objective is to detect faces that repeat every n trials. |
| Fagerstrom Test for Nicotine Dependence | task | a standard instrument for assessing the intensity of physical addiction to nicotine. (from http://www.aafp.org/afp/20000801/579.html) |
| Forward digit span task | task | A method of short-term memory measurement in which a person listens to someone say a series of single-digit numbers and must repeat them back in the same order they were given. |
| Go/no-go task | task | A task in which stimuli are presented in a continuous stream and participants perform a binary decision on each stimulus. One of the outcomes requires participants to make a motor response (go), whereas the other requires participants to withhold a response (no-go)... |
| Gray Oral Reading Test4 | task | measures growth in oral reading and aids in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties. Five scores provide information on oral reading skills in terms of: Rate, accuracy, fluency, comprehension, overall reading ability, and comprehension... |
| Hooper Visual Organization Test | task | a neuropsychological test of visual spatial ability that presents participants with a line drawing of a common object that has been broken into fragments, and asks participants to name what the object would be if reassembled. |
| immediate recall test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| International Affective Picture System | task | a database of photographs used in emotion research. (from psychology.wikia.com) |
| Intradimensional shift task | task | A task in which multiple (typically two) stimuli are presented simultaneously and the subject must select the stimulus that matches the currently relevant rule. The rule represents the relevant task "dimension"... |
| Iowa Gambling Task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Ishihara plates for color blindness | task | a test for red-green color deficiencies that consists of a number of colored plates, called Ishihara plates, each of which contain a circle of dots appearing randomized in color and size. Within the pattern are dots which form a number visible to those with normal color vision and invisible, or difficult to see, for those with a red-green color vision defect... |
| Kanizsa figures | task | An ambiguous figure in which the illusory contour of a square (or triangle) appears in the middle of four (or three) truncated solid squares (or circles). It is an illustration of the perceptual ability to make sense of an incomplete figure by creating a 'whole' image from the separate elements (Gestalt organization)... |
| keep-track task | task | A task in which subjects are first shown a set of categories to keep track of for a particular trial (e.g., animals, colors, and countries). They are then presented with words (including words from each category), and must remember the last word that was presented from each of the categories and recall those words at the end of the trial... |
| letter fluency test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| letter n-back task | task | A task in which participants view a continuous stream of letter stimuli. The object of the task is to identify letter repetitions that occur n-trials preceding to the current stimulus. |
| Letter naming task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| letter number sequencing | task | a task that requires the reordering of an initially unordered set of letters and numbers |
| Lexical decision task | task | a procedure used in many psychology and psycholinguistics experiments; the basic procedure involves measuring how quickly people classify stimuli as words or nonwords. Subjects are presented, either visually or auditorily, with a mixture of words and pseudowords (nonsense strings that respect the phonotactic rules of a language, like trud in English)... |
| listening span task | task | A task in which subjects must listen to a set of sentences and remember the last word in the sentence. The number of words that can be recalled is the "listening span." |
| matching pennies game | task | The game is played between two players, Player A and Player B. Each player has a penny and must secretly turn the penny to heads or tails. The players then reveal their choices simultaneously. If the pennies match (both heads or both tails), Player A receives one dollar from Player B (+1 for A, -1 for B)... |
| Maudsley Obsessive Compulsive Inventory | task | assess obsessive-compulsive symptoms in the areas of contamination fears and washing behaviors, checking, and worries using 30 dichotomously scored (true/false) items. (from http://www.ocdhope.com/obsessive-compulsive-disorder... |
| MicroCog | task | Overview The first automated neuropsychological battery developed for clinical practice-fast, reliable, extremely efficient Target specific concerns of cognitive impairment in adults with the updated MicroCog™: Assessment of Cognitive Functioning Windows® Edition (MicroCog™ for Windows®)... |
| Mini Mental State Examination | task | The mini-mental state examination (MMSE) or Folstein test is a brief 30-point questionnaire test that is used to screen for cognitive impairment. It is commonly used in medicine to screen for dementia... |
| motor sequencing task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| n-back task | task | A task in which items (e.g., letters) are presented one at a time and participants must identify each item that repeats relative to the item that occurred "n" items before its onset. |
| nine-hole peg test | task | a timed test of fine motor coordination; the test involves the subject placing 9 dowels in 9 holes. Subjects are scored on the amount of time it takes to place and remove all 9 pegs. (from http://healthsciences... |
| object-discrimination task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| oculomotor delayed response | task | a task that requires an eye movement to be made to a cued location after a delay |
| oddball task | task | A task in which stimuli are presented in a continuous stream and participants must detect the presence of an oddball stimulus. The oddball is a stimulus that occurs infrequently relative to all other stimuli, and has distinct characteristics (e... |
| operation span task | task | A task in which subjects are asked to perform a simple mathematical verification (e.g., 4/2 +1 = 3) and then read a word, with a recall test following some number of those verify/read pairs. The maximum number of words that can be recalled is the "operation span". |
| Pantomime Task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Parrott Scale | task | No definition submitted yet |
| picture naming task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Positive and Negative Affect Scale | task | A psychometric scale to measure positive and negative affects in individuals, and both as states and traits. |
| Posner cueing task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Pseudoword naming task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| pyramids and palm trees task | task | a semantic memory test that measures the capacity to access detailed semantic information about words and pictures, necessary for the identification of the analogies, which link conceptually two perceptually, and functionally distinct entities... |
| Rapid Automatized Naming Test | task | A task which involves rapidly naming a series of color blocks, letters, and pictures. |
| Rapid Serial Object Transformation | task | A task where two sets of differently colored superimposed patterns of dots rotate in opposite directions. The participant is asked to pay attention to on set of dots. One of the sets of dots will then move across the screen and the participant must say which direction the dots are moving... |
| reading span task | task | A task that requires participants to read series of unconnected sentences aloud and to remember the final word of each sentence of a series (grouped according to the total number of sentences). With each sentence presented on a card, participants were cued to recall the memorized end-of-sentence words in their original order by a blank card at the end of a series... |
| recognition memory test | task | In a recognition memory test, a participant is presented with some or all of a set of "old" stimuli that were encoded earlier, as well as several "new" stimuli that were not previously presented... |
| reversal learning task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Risky Gains task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Salthouse and Babcock Listening Span task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Same-Different Task | task | A task which assesses shifting attention. In the computerized version of this task, three spaceships appear on a screen and the participant must determine if the spaceships are all different or all the same... |
| selective attention task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| self-ordered pointing task | task | A task in which a set of stimuli is presented, and subjects must point to one stimulus at a time, without ever pointing at the same stimulus twice. |
| semantic anomaly judgement task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| semantic association task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| sentence completion test | task | a test that provides respondents with beginnings of sentences, referred to as “stems,” and respondents then complete the sentences in ways that are meaningful to them. The responses are believed to provide indications of attitudes, beliefs, motivations, or other mental states... |
| Set-shifting task | task | A task in which participants alternate between two or more judgments typically regarding the same set of stimuli. Accuracy and reaction time are measured for each judgment. |
| Simon task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| simple reaction time task | task | task that assesses the ability of the subject to respond to an external cue and retrieve a reward. (from http://nbc.jhu.edu/beh/srt.aspx) |
| source memory test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Span/Supra-Span Test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| spatial n-back task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Spielberger's State-Trait Anxiety Questionnaire | task | instrument used to measure trait (chronic) anxiety, a general propensity to be anxious, and state (temporary) anxiety, a temporary state varying in intensity, in adults. (from Wikipedia) |
| Sternberg delayed recognition task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| stop signal task | task | A task in which an external stimulus signals the participant to interrupt an already-initiated motor response. |
| Stroop task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Structured Clinical Interview for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) Axis I Disorder | task | a diagnostic exam used to determine DSM-IV Axis I disorders (major mental disorders). (from Wikipedia) |
| symbol-digit substitution | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Symptom Checklist-90-Revised | task | a relatively brief self-report psychometric instrument designed to evaluate a broad range of psychological problems and symptoms of psychopathology. It is also useful in measuring the progress and outcome of psychiatric and psychological treatments or for research purposes... |
| syntactic acceptability judgement task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| task-switching | task | A task in which participants alternate between two or more judgments typically regarding the same set of stimuli. Accuracy and reaction time are measured for each judgment. |
| Temporal discounting task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Test of Word Reading Efficiency | task | a nationally normed measure of word reading accuracy and fluency that provides an efficient means of monitoring the growth of two kinds of word reading skills that are critical in the development of overall reading ability: the ability to accurately recognize familiar words as whole units or “sight words” and the ability to “sound out” words quickly... |
| Tobacco Craving Questionnaire | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Trail Making Test A and B | task | A neuropsychological test in which participants must connect-the-dots (traverse between items) according to some specified order. In Test A these items are numbers (1,2,3 etc.) and the order is determined by increasing magnitude... |
| Underlining Test | task | This test involves finding and underlining stimuli that are among other stimuli. There are four conditions of the test: finding and underlining letters among other letters, drawings among other drawings, real words among nonsense letter strings, and then specific nonsense words among others... |
| Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale | task | a rating scale used to follow the longitudinal course of Parkinson's disease, made up of the following sections: (1)evaluation of Mentation, behavior, and mood, (2)self evaluation of the activities of daily life (ADLs), (3)clinician-scored motor evaluation, (4)Hoehn and Yahr stating of severity of Parkinson disease, (5)Schwab and England ADL scale; these are evaluated by interview and clinical observation... |
| Vandenberg & Kuse Tasks | task | Paper and pencil Test of mental rotation ability. Participants must are presented with four 3-D block figures and must select 2 from the group which match a reference figure. This test is administered under time contraints... |
| visual alignment task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| visuospatial cueing task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Warrington's Face/Word Recognition Test | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence | task | The WASI meets the demand for a reliable, brief measure of intellectual ability in clinical, educational and research settings for ages 6 to 89 years. With parallel forms of WAIS-IIIUK and WISC-IIIUK subtests, it offers the clinician a means of reducing practice effects on repeat testing... |
| Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised | task | a general test of intelligence, which Wechsler defined as, "... the global capacity of the individual to act purposefully, to think rationally, and to deal effectively with his environment." In keeping with this definition of intelligence as an aggregate of mental aptitudes or abilities, the WAIS-R consists of 11 subtests divided into two parts, verbal and performance... |
| Wechsler Adult Intelligence ScaleRevised | task | used with adults ages 16 to 90 and measures cognitive ability using a core battery of 10 unique subtests that focus on four specific domains of intelligence: verbal comprehension, perceptual reasoning, working memory, and processing speed... |
| Wechsler Memory Scale – Fourth Edition | task | Areas of Assessment Updated Test Structure The WMS-IV has had significant changes to the overall test structure. Based on feedback from customers, we are introducing four new subtests and modifying three existing subtests... |
| WISC-R Mazes | task | This task involves completing a series of increasingly complex mazes. |
| Wisconsin Card Sorting test | task | The participant is presented with stimulus cards with shapes on them. The cards differ in color of the shapes, number of the shapes, and the form of the shapes. The participant is asked to sort these cards into two piles... |
| word attack | task | No definition submitted yet |
| Word generation task | task | No definition submitted yet |
| word identification | task | No definition submitted yet |
| word-picture verification task | task | is an experimental paradigm where a picture of an object is presented along with either an auditory or written word and participants indicate whether the word and the picture refer to the same concept... |
| Wordpicture verification task | task | No definition submitted yet |