Perceptual judgment and psychophysics tasks

A judgment about a sensory stimulus near or below threshold, or a passive presentation designed to isolate a perceptual response; thresholds, accuracy and evoked responses are the measures.

This family contains 5 tasks.

Task

Short definition

Processes

Auditory Masking Task

Detect, discriminate, or identify a target sound in the presence of a masking sound; threshold shifts between…

4

Biological Motion Perception Task

Judgment of human action or identity from sparse point-light displays attached to major joints; indexes recogn…

5

Face Processing Task

Blocked or event-related presentation of faces vs. objects (or scrambled faces) to localize face-selective cor…

3

Random Dot Kinematogram Task

A field of moving dots in which a variable fraction move coherently; direction judgments and RT under varying…

5

Visual Masking Task

A brief target is rendered invisible or reduced in visibility by a preceding or following mask; variants inclu…

4