Measures of Attention Control
Toolbox tasks: Download tasks here
Sustained attention-to-cue task
Antisaccade
Selective Visual Arrays
Stroop with an adaptive response deadline
Three-minute Squared tasks: Download tasks here
Flanker Squared
Stroop Squared
Simon Squared
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Description
Measurement and theory are entwined; without adequate measurement, theoretical conclusions rest on tenuous ground. To understand the nature of attention control as a cognitive construct, we need tasks with strong psychometric properties that produce systematic differences in performance across individuals.
Unfortunately, the study of individual differences in the ability to control attention has been hindered by measures that are notoriously unreliable. Therefore, we have been working on improving the measurement of attention control by modifying existing measures and developing novel tasks.
Our position is that individual differences in the ability to control attention can be reliably measured and they underpin a wide range of cognitive functions, from problem solving and maintaining information in working memory to processing information rapidly and multitasking. That said, it is critical that we continue to refine our tools, including not only our tasks but also our experimental and statistical approaches.
Publications
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Replication and extension of the toolbox approach to measuring attention control
Christopher D. Draheim, Jason S. Tsukahara, Randall W. Engle
Behavior Research Methods
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Nature and measurement of attention control
Alexander P. Burgoyne, Jason S. Tsukahara, Cody A. Mashburn, Randall W. Engle
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
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The visual arrays task: Visual storage capacity or attention control?
Jessie D. Martin, Jason S. Tsukahara, Christopher Draheim, Zach Shipstead, Cody A. Mashburn, Vogel K. Edward, Randall W. Engle
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
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A toolbox approach to improving the measurement of attention control
Christopher Draheim, Jason S. Tsukahara, Jessie D. Martin, Cody A. Mashburn, Randall W. Engle
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
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Differential and experimental approaches to studying intelligence in humans and non-human animals
Alexander P. Burgoyne, Jason S. Tsukahara, Randall W. Engle
Learning and Motivation
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Individual differences in attention control: Implications for the relationship between working memory capacity and fluid intelligence
Cody A. Mashburn, Jason S. Tsukahara, Randall W. Engle
Working memory: The state of the science