Oddball, vigilance and continuous performance tasks

A long stream of stimuli contains rare targets or deviants; detection, false alarms, response variability or the evoked response to the rare event are the measures.

This family contains 5 tasks.

Task	Short definition	Processes
Continuous Performance Task	Extended stream of stimuli in which a rare target requires a response; omission and commission errors index su…	5
Mismatch Negativity Task	Passive auditory oddball in which rare deviant sounds elicit a negative ERP around 150–250 ms, indexing pre-at…	4
Oddball Task	Sequence of standards with rare deviants or targets; deviants elicit a large positive ERP around 300 ms (P3a/P…	5
Psychomotor Vigilance Task	Simple reaction to visual or auditory stimuli appearing at random intervals over 5–10 minutes; mean RT, lapses…	4
Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Task	A rapid stream of visual items is presented at a single location (typically 6-20 items/second); participants d…	7

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
Rapid Serial Visual Presentation Task	Targets in a rapid stream; the attentional blink could argue for visual search and tracking