Attentional cueing and orienting tasks

A cue precedes a target and predicts its location or identity with some validity; the benefit of valid over invalid cues is the measure.

This family contains 3 tasks.

Task	Short definition	Processes
Attention Network Task	Identify the direction of a central arrow flanked by congruent or incongruent arrows, preceded by various cue…	6
Dot-Probe Task	A pair of cues (often threat/neutral) is followed by a probe at one cue location; RT difference by cue type in…	5
Posner Spatial Cueing Task	A central or peripheral cue indicates the likely target location; RT differences between valid, neutral, and i…	5

Assignments marked for review

The filing of these tasks is a judgement call; the note says why they are here and where else they could go.

Task	Note
Attention Network Task	Cueing combined with a flanker; filed by its cue manipulation