Conflict and interference tasks

A task-relevant feature must be reported while a task-irrelevant feature of the same stimulus or of a distractor pulls toward a competing response; the cost on incongruent trials is the measure.

This family contains 8 tasks.

Task	Short definition	Processes
Emotional Stroop Task	Color-naming of emotionally valenced words; RT slowing on threat-related words indexes attentional bias to aff…	5
Eriksen Flanker Task	A central target flanked by congruent or incongruent distractors; RT and error differences index selective att…	5
Imitation-Inhibition Task	Execute an instructed finger movement while observing a congruent or incongruent action performed by another p…	3
Implicit Association Task	Speeded categorization of stimuli belonging to two target concepts and two evaluative attributes using shared…	6
Navon Task	Hierarchical letters in which large letters are composed of small ones; RT differences between global and loca…	4
Simon Task	Non-spatial feature (e.g. color) dictates a left/right response while task-irrelevant stimulus location varies…	5
Stroop Color-Word Task	Naming the ink color of color words while ignoring word meaning; RT and error costs on incongruent trials inde…	6
Weapons Identification Task	Speeded categorization of tools vs weapons primed by faces of varying race; congruence effects index implicit…	6

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
Navon Task	Global-local interference; could be filed under perceptual judgment
Weapons Identification Task	Race prime creates a congruence effect on categorization; could be filed under social cognition