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Attention, Selection, and Vigilance
Tasks that make orienting, selection, temporal attention, and continuous monitoring visible in real time.
Attentional Network Task
CoreAlerting, orienting, and conflict in one task
Spatial Attention (Posner Cueing)
CoreExogenous cueing: peripheral cue, 300 ms SOA
Visual Search (Feature vs Conjunction)
Core2AFC set-size effect task
Attentional Blink
Temporal limits of attention
Inhibition of Return (IOR)
Exogenous cueing: non-predictive cue, 500 to 700 ms SOA
Letter Search
Find the rotated T among Ls
Psychomotor Vigilance Task
Sustained readiness with unpredictable foreperiods
Rapid Visual Processing
Rapid digit streams with target sequence monitoring
Visual Search (Present/Absent)
Feature vs conjunction search with target-absent trials
Interference, Conflict, and Cognitive Control
Tasks centered on automaticity, response conflict, inhibition, and switching between rules.
Classic Stroop (2 Color)
CoreColor/word interference task
Eriksen Flanker Task
CoreDirectional congruency task
Stop Signal Task
CoreReactive response inhibition
Task Switching
CoreAlternating rule costs
Donders Response Types
Simple, go/no-go, and choice reaction conditions
Hearts and Flowers
Congruent, incongruent, and mixed rule blocks
Left-Right Task
Word meaning versus spatial location
Negative Priming
Distractor interference resolution
Posner Letter Match
Letter matching by name: physical vs name identity
Simon Task
Stimulus-response compatibility
Stimulus Quality Task
Perceptual degradation and processing speed
Working Memory and Verbal Learning
Short, classroom-friendly tasks for capacity limits, updating, and immediate memory span.
Digit Memory Span
CoreForward and backward immediate memory span
N-Back Task
CoreWorking memory updating and monitoring
Change Detection (Working Memory)
Visual working memory capacity
Spatial Working Memory (Corsi)
Sequential visuospatial capacity
Learning, Executive Function, and Problem Solving
Tasks where performance changes with hidden structure, feedback, or repeated experience.
Serial Reaction Time Task
CoreImplicit sequence learning
Card Sorting Task
Sort picture cards by a hidden rule, guided only by feedback (after Grant & Berg, 1948)
Symbol Digit Substitution
Processing speed with a visible code table
Trail Making
Sequential visual search and alternating set switching
Perception, Spatial Cognition, and Psychophysics
Tasks that highlight perceptual bias, mental transformation, and decision making under uncertainty.
Mental Rotation (Letters)
Core2D alphanumeric rotation
Mueller-Lyer Illusion
CorePerceptual length illusion bias
Global vs Local (Navon)
Hierarchical letter processing
Mental Rotation (3D Objects)
Shepard & Metzler shapes
Random Dot Motion (RDK)
Perceptual evidence accumulation
Redundant Target Task
Simple reactions to one or two dots
Signal Detection
Perceptual sensitivity (d')