CANTAB - Spatial Span

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CANTAB - Spatial Span

Basic Characteristics

• Description

The CANTAB (Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery) Spatial Span test assesses working memory capacity. The test take approximately 5 minutes to copmlete. White squares are displayed on a screen and some breifly change color in a variable sequence. Particpants are to touch the boxes which changed color in the same order that they were dsiplayed by the computer. The number of boxes increases from two at the start to nine at the end. Sequence and color are varied throughout the test. Outcome measures include span length, errors, number of attempts, and latency.

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Task Details

• Task Structure (please given an overview of the task procedures here [i.e., overall design, block, trial, and within-trial event structure and timing])
  • procedure
    • block:
    • trial:
• Stimulus Characteristics
  • sensory modality (e.g., visual, auditory, somatosensory, gustatory, olfactory):
  • functional modality (e.g., linguistic, spatial, numerical, categorical):
  • presentation modality (e.g., human examiner, paper, computer display, headphones, speaker):
• Response Characteristics
  • response required -
    • effector modality (e.g., vocal, manual, pedal):
    • functional modality (e.g., words, drawing, writing, keypress, movement):
  • response options (e.g., yes/no, go/no-go, forced choice, multiple choice [specify n of options], free response)-
  • response collection (e.g., examiner notes, keyboard, keypad, mouse, voice key, button press)-
• Assessment/Control Characteristics
  • timing-
    • monthly cycle dependent??
    • circadian dependent??
  • control assessment
    • 5 senses??