Pseudo tasks: rest, fixation and self-report blocks

Block-level activities that establish or hold a brain state, or collect a self-report, rather than eliciting a process through trials; the participant rests, fixates or answers a questionnaire, and the block’s onset, offset and instruction are what is recorded. Pseudo tasks carry no process links by design.

This family contains 3 tasks.

Task	Short definition	Processes
Fixate Task	Participant holds gaze on a fixation target for a block with nothing else to process or do; used as a baseline…	0
Rest Task	Participant stays awake, still and unoccupied for a block of several minutes while spontaneous activity is rec…	0
Take Questionnaire Task	Participant reads or hears a series of questionnaire items and records a response to each; the instrument admi…	0