Response inhibition and stopping tasks

A prepared or prepotent response must be withheld or cancelled on a minority of trials; commission errors and stopping latency are the measures.

This family contains 4 tasks.

Task

Short definition

Processes

Anti-Saccade Task

Participants must suppress a prepotent saccade toward a peripheral cue and generate a voluntary saccade to the…

6

Go/No-Go Task

Responses required to frequent “go” stimuli must be withheld on rare “no-go” stimuli; commission errors and N2…

5

Stop-Signal Task

Choice RT task in which an occasional stop signal requires response cancellation; stop-signal reaction time (S…

5

Sustained Attention to Response Task

Speeded responses to frequent non-targets with withholding on rare targets; commission errors and RT variabili…

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

Sustained Attention to Response Task

Go/no-go structure with rare withhold targets; also a vigilance measure