Cognitive Tasks

Joggle Research offers a core set of eight tasks covering a range of cognitive domains and individual performance abilities. Watch the demos below to see the tasks in action.

Motor Praxis Task (MPT)

Participants are to quickly touch ever-shrinking boxes. Each time a new box appears in a different location on the screen.

Cognitive domain	Sensory motor speed
Primary brain regions recruited	Sensorimotor cortext
# of peer-reviewed references	62
Avg. administration time	0.5 min

Visual Object Learning Task (VOLT)

Participants are to quickly touch ever-shrinking boxes. Each time a new box appears in a different location on the screen.

Cognitive domain	Visual learning and spatial working memory
Primary brain regions recruited	Medial temporal cortex – hippocampus
# of peer-reviewed references	657
Avg. administration time	1.7 min

NBACK

Participants are shown images one at a time and are to identify images that occurred “n” trials ago.

Cognitive domain	Working memory
Primary brain regions recruited	Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, cingulate, hippocampus
# of peer-reviewed references	890
Avg. administration time	1.9 min

Abstract Matching (AM)

Participants select pairs of shapes that fit with another shape.

Cognitive domain	Abstraction
Primary brain regions recruited	Prefrontal Cortex
# of peer-reviewed references	1650
Avg. administration time	2.4 min

Line Orientation Task (LOT)

Participants are shown two lines at different angles, and are to rotate one line incrementally until it is parallel to the other.

Cognitive domain	Spatial orientation
Primary brain regions recruited	Right temporo-parietal cortex, visual cortex
# of peer-reviewed references	171
Avg. administration time	2.1 min

Digital Symbol Substitution Task (DSST)

Participants touch the number paired to the symbol that matches the current target symbol.

Cognitive domain	Complex scanning and visual tracking
Primary brain regions recruited	Temporal cortex, prefrontal cortex, motor cortex
# of peer-reviewed references	580
Avg. administration time	1.6 min

Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART)

Participants inflate balloons of unknown popping probability to obtain the highest reward. Each pump increases the potential reward. The potential reward is lost if the balloon pops.

Cognitive domain	Risk decision making
Primary brain regions recruited	Orbital frontal cortex, amygdala, hippocampus, anterior cingulate cortex
# of peer-reviewed references	65
Avg. administration time	2.3 min

Psychomotor Vigilance Test (PVT)

Participants are to quickly respond to the sudden appearance of stimuli inside a box and avoid responding prematurely.

Cognitive domain	Vigilant attention
Primary brain regions recruited	Prefrontal cortex, motor cortex, visual cortex
# of peer-reviewed references	769
Avg. administration time	3.2 min

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