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HED Task Catalog

Overview

  • Introduction
  • How to use the Catalog

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

Methods

  • Task criteria
    • 1. Task selection criteria
    • 2. Task naming rules
    • 3. The task inclusion test
    • 4. Variation criteria
    • 5. Borderline case policy
    • 6. Task family assignment
  • 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
  • Atlas mapping method

Cognitive Atlas

  • What is the Cognitive Atlas?
  • The Catalog vs the Atlas
  • Task mapping
  • Process mapping

Quick links

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