CPT
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CPT
Basic Characteristics
- Description
Conner's continuous performance test (CPT) is a measure used to assess attention and vigilance. The test is commonly administered to those suspected of having attentional disorders such as ADHD or trouble with neurological functioning. During this task letters of the alphabet are presented one at a time for 250 MS
- History
- References
Advokat et al, 2007. Conner's continuous performace test of college students with ADHD, psychotic disorders, cognitive deficits, or no diagnosis PMID 17242420
Related Information
- Cognitive construct associated with this task (vote for your favorite, or nominate a new construct label by editing this page):
- Indicators (dependent variables, conditions, or contrasts; measurement variables used for analysis) associated with this task (vote or nominate by editing this page): response times, change in reaction time speed and consistency, signal detection theory statistics, overall statistics, omission errors, and commission errors.
- Closely related pages (vote or nominate related pages by editing this page):
- CNP Level
External Resources
- Links out:
- Google: CPT
- Wikipedia: CPT
- PubBrain: CPT
- PubMed: CPT
- -ucla cognitive atlas- (coming soon!)
- Database links
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: 6 blocks each containing 3 sublocks of 20 letters ea.
- trial: 30 completed trials
- procedure
- Stimulus Characteristics
- sensory modality (e.g., visual, auditory, somatosensory, gustatory, olfactory): visual
- functional modality (e.g., linguistic, spatial, numerical, categorical):
- presentation modality (e.g., human examiner, paper, computer display, headphones, speaker): computer display
- Response Characteristics
- response required -
- effector modality (e.g., vocal, manual, pedal): manual
- functional modality (e.g., words, drawing, writing, keypress, movement): mouse press or keypress
- 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)- mouse and/or keyboard
- response required -
- Assessment/Control Characteristics
- timing- letters are presented one at a time for 250 ms, interstimulus intervals (ISIs) of 1, 2, or 4s, approximately 14 minutes to complete
- monthly cycle dependent??
- circadian dependent??
- control assessment
- 5 senses??
- timing- letters are presented one at a time for 250 ms, interstimulus intervals (ISIs) of 1, 2, or 4s, approximately 14 minutes to complete