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Overview:

  • Introduction to HED
  • How can you use HED?
  • Making HED meaningful
  • HED schemas
  • What’s new?

Tutorials and guides:

  • BIDS annotation quickstart
  • HED annotation quickstart
  • NWB annotation quickstart
  • HED validation guide
  • HED search guide
  • HED summary guide
  • Design matrices

Tool documentation:

  • HED online tools
    • User guide
    • Deployment
    • API reference
      • Web application
      • Operations
      • Utilities
  • Python HEDTools
    • User guide
    • API
      • Models
      • Schema
      • Validator
      • Tools
      • Error handling
  • JavaScript HEDTools
    • Browser-based validator
    • JavaScript API
  • MATLAB HEDTools
    • User guide
    • API reference
  • NWB HED extension
    • Getting Started
    • API Reference
    • ndx-hed
    • Release Notes
    • Credits
    • Legal
  • HED schema development
    • HED schemas overview
    • Schema developer guide
    • API reference
  • Table-remodeler
    • Remodeler tutorial
    • User guide
    • Operations reference
      • Transformations
        • Factor column
        • Factor HED tags
        • Factor HED type
        • Merge consecutive
        • Remap columns
        • Remove columns
        • Remove rows
        • Rename columns
        • Reorder columns
        • Split rows
      • Summarizations
        • Summarize column names
        • Summarize column values
        • Summarize definitions
        • Summarize HED tags
        • Summarize HED type
        • Summarize HED validation
        • Summarize sidecar from events
    • API reference
      • Core components
      • Operations
      • Command-line interface
  • HED MCP server
    • Usage
    • MCP API
  • HED visualization tools
    • Visualization guide
    • Visualization API
      • Core API
      • Word cloud generators
      • hedvis configuration classes
  • CTagger
    • User guide
    • CTagger in EEGLAB
  • HED VSCode extension

Other resources:

  • HED specification
    • 1. Introduction to HED
    • 2. HED terminology
    • 3. HED formats
    • 4. Basic annotation
    • 5. Advanced annotation
    • 6. Infrastructure and tools
    • 7. Library schemas
    • 8. The HED ontology
    • A. Schema format details
    • B. HED errors
  • HED task catalog
    • Introduction
    • How to use the Catalog
    • Tasks
      • Tasks by paradigm family
        • Conflict and interference
          • Emotional Stroop
          • Eriksen Flanker
          • Imitation-Inhibition
          • Implicit Association
          • Navon
          • Simon
          • Stroop Color-Word
          • Weapons Identification
        • Response inhibition and stopping
          • Anti-Saccade
          • Go/No-Go
          • Stop-Signal
          • Sustained Attention to Response
        • Attentional cueing and orienting
          • Attention Network
          • Dot-Probe
          • Posner Spatial Cueing
        • Visual search and tracking
          • Contextual Cueing
          • Multiple Object Tracking
          • Useful Field of View
          • Visual Search
        • Oddball, vigilance and continuous performance
          • Continuous Performance
          • Mismatch Negativity
          • Oddball
          • Psychomotor Vigilance
          • Rapid Serial Visual Presentation
        • Perceptual judgment and psychophysics
          • Auditory Masking
          • Biological Motion Perception
          • Face Processing
          • Random Dot Kinematogram
          • Visual Masking
        • Short-term and working memory
          • Change Detection
          • Corsi Block-Tapping
          • Delayed Match-to-Sample
          • Digit Span
          • N-Back
          • Operation Span
          • Sternberg Item Recognition
        • Recall and recognition memory
          • Autobiographical Memory
          • Cambridge Face Memory
          • Free Recall
          • Mnemonic Similarity
          • Old/New Recognition Memory
          • Paired Associates Learning
          • Remember/Know
          • Rey Auditory Verbal Learning
          • Source Memory
        • Memory control and prospective memory
          • Directed Forgetting
          • Prospective Memory
          • Self-Referential Encoding
          • Think/No-Think
        • Metacognition, agency and interoception
          • Body Ownership Illusion
          • Feeling-of-Knowing
          • Heartbeat Detection
          • Intentional Binding
          • Judgment-of-Learning
        • Conditioning, reinforcement and implicit learning
          • Artificial Grammar Learning
          • Causal Learning
          • Instrumental Conditioning
          • Multi-Armed Bandit
          • Pavlovian Fear Conditioning
          • Probabilistic Classification Learning
          • Probabilistic Selection
          • Reversal Learning
          • Serial Reaction Time
          • Two-Stage Decision
        • Motor performance and speeded response
          • Digit Symbol Substitution
          • Finger Tapping
          • Mirror Tracing
          • Motor Sequence Learning
          • Psychological Refractory Period
        • Rule use, planning and reasoning
          • Raven's Progressive Matrices
          • Remote Associates
          • Task Switching
          • Tower of London
          • Trail Making
          • Wason Selection
          • Wisconsin Card Sorting
        • Reward, risk and value-based choice
          • Balloon Analog Risk
          • Delay Discounting
          • Effort-Based Decision-Making
          • Iowa Gambling
          • Monetary Incentive Delay
          • Social Incentive Delay
        • Social cognition and social choice
          • Dictator Game
          • False Belief
          • Prisoner's Dilemma
          • Reading the Mind in the Eyes
          • Trust Game
          • Ultimatum Game
        • Emotion elicitation and regulation
          • Affective Picture Viewing
          • Affective Priming
          • Emotion Regulation
          • Facial Emotion Recognition
        • Language comprehension and production
          • Lexical Decision
          • Phonological Awareness
          • Picture Naming
          • Self-Paced Reading
          • Semantic Priming
          • Sentence Comprehension
          • Verb Generation
          • Verbal Fluency
        • Spatial cognition and navigation
          • Mental Rotation
          • Virtual Morris Water Maze
          • Virtual Radial Arm Maze
        • Pseudo tasks: rest, fixation and self-report blocks
          • Fixate
          • Rest
          • Take Questionnaire
      • Tasks alphabetically
        • Affective Picture Viewing
        • Affective Priming
        • Anti-Saccade
        • Artificial Grammar Learning
        • Attention Network
        • Auditory Masking
        • Autobiographical Memory
        • Balloon Analog Risk
        • Biological Motion Perception
        • Body Ownership Illusion
        • Cambridge Face Memory
        • Causal Learning
        • Change Detection
        • Contextual Cueing
        • Continuous Performance
        • Corsi Block-Tapping
        • Delay Discounting
        • Delayed Match-to-Sample
        • Dictator Game
        • Digit Span
        • Digit Symbol Substitution
        • Directed Forgetting
        • Dot-Probe
        • Effort-Based Decision-Making
        • Emotion Regulation
        • Emotional Stroop
        • Eriksen Flanker
        • Face Processing
        • Facial Emotion Recognition
        • False Belief
        • Feeling-of-Knowing
        • Finger Tapping
        • Fixate
        • Free Recall
        • Go/No-Go
        • Heartbeat Detection
        • Imitation-Inhibition
        • Implicit Association
        • Instrumental Conditioning
        • Intentional Binding
        • Iowa Gambling
        • Judgment-of-Learning
        • Lexical Decision
        • Mental Rotation
        • Mirror Tracing
        • Mismatch Negativity
        • Mnemonic Similarity
        • Monetary Incentive Delay
        • Motor Sequence Learning
        • Multi-Armed Bandit
        • Multiple Object Tracking
        • N-Back
        • Navon
        • Oddball
        • Old/New Recognition Memory
        • Operation Span
        • Paired Associates Learning
        • Pavlovian Fear Conditioning
        • Phonological Awareness
        • Picture Naming
        • Posner Spatial Cueing
        • Prisoner's Dilemma
        • Probabilistic Classification Learning
        • Probabilistic Selection
        • Prospective Memory
        • Psychological Refractory Period
        • Psychomotor Vigilance
        • Random Dot Kinematogram
        • Rapid Serial Visual Presentation
        • Raven's Progressive Matrices
        • Reading the Mind in the Eyes
        • Remember/Know
        • Remote Associates
        • Rest
        • Reversal Learning
        • Rey Auditory Verbal Learning
        • Self-Paced Reading
        • Self-Referential Encoding
        • Semantic Priming
        • Sentence Comprehension
        • Serial Reaction Time
        • Simon
        • Social Incentive Delay
        • Source Memory
        • Sternberg Item Recognition
        • Stop-Signal
        • Stroop Color-Word
        • Sustained Attention to Response
        • Take Questionnaire
        • Task Switching
        • Think/No-Think
        • Tower of London
        • Trail Making
        • Trust Game
        • Two-Stage Decision
        • Ultimatum Game
        • Useful Field of View
        • Verb Generation
        • Verbal Fluency
        • Virtual Morris Water Maze
        • Virtual Radial Arm Maze
        • Visual Masking
        • Visual Search
        • Wason Selection
        • Weapons Identification
        • Wisconsin Card Sorting
    • Cognitive processes
      • Processes by category
        • Associative Learning and Reinforcement
        • Auditory and Pre-Attentive Deviance Processing
        • Awareness, Agency, and Metacognition
        • Cognitive Flexibility and Higher-Order Executive Function
        • Emotion Perception and Regulation
        • Face and Object Perception
        • Implicit and Statistical Learning
        • Inhibitory Control and Conflict Monitoring
        • Language Comprehension and Production
        • Long-Term Memory
        • Motor Preparation, Timing, and Execution
        • Perceptual Decision-Making (Evidence Accumulation)
        • Reasoning and Problem-Solving
        • Reward Anticipation and Motivation
        • Selective and Sustained Attention
        • Short-Term and Working Memory
        • Social Cognition and Strategic Social Choice
        • Spatial Cognition and Navigation
        • Value-Based Decision-Making Under Risk and Uncertainty
      • Processes alphabetically
    • Task-process links
    • Task criteria
      • 1. Task selection criteria
      • 2. Task naming rules
      • 3. The task inclusion test
      • 4. Variation criteria
      • 5. Borderline case policy
    • Process criteria
      • 1. Process selection criteria
      • 2. Process naming rules
      • 3. Process definition standards
      • 4. Process category rules
      • 5. Process reference standards
      • 6. Task linkage rules
    • Mapping to Cognitive Atlas
      • 1. Source data and match types
      • 2. Task coverage
      • 3. Process coverage
      • 4. Verification and reproduction
    • What is in the Cognitive Atlas
    • The Catalog and the Cognitive Atlas
    • Task mapping tables
    • Process mapping tables
  • Documentation summary
  • Understanding HED versions
  • Brief history of HED
  • HED governance

Data resources:

  • HED JSON tests
    • User guide
    • Test coverage report
    • Test index
  • HED test datasets

Quick links

  • HED homepage
  • HED schema browser
  • HED specification
  • HED task catalog
  • HED online tools
  • HED browser tools
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Task criteria¶

Purpose: Reference document specifying how the HED Task Catalog’s 103 tasks were scoped, how tasks were selected, and the rules for classifying variations vs. aliases vs. non-variations.

Companion to the process criteria.

Sections are numbered so that they can be cited; a citation such as “task criteria 2.1” means subsection 1 of section 2 of this document.

  1. Task selection criteria

  2. Task naming rules

  3. The task inclusion test

  4. Variation criteria

  5. Borderline case policy

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