The attention control tasks provided on this website have been designed to measure individual differences on the latent construct of attention control. We now have multiple sets of attention control tasks that you may want to choose from. See our Publications to learn more about the nature of attention control.

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Attention Control Tasks

Citations


If you use any of the attention control tasks, please cite the appropriate publication:


If you are using any of the toolbox tasks:

Draheim et al. (2023)

Replication and extension of the toolbox approach to measuring attention control. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02140-2

Draheim et al. (2021)

A toolbox approach to improving the measurement of attention control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 150(2), 242-275. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000783

If you are using any of the squared tasks:

Burgoyne et al. (2023)

Nature and measurement of attention control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001408

If you are using the antisaccade:

Hutchison (2007)

Attention conrol and the relatedness proportion effect in semantic priming. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 33(4), 645 - 662.

Unsworth et al. (2004)

Working memory capacity and the antisaccade task: Individual differences in voluntary saccade control. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 30(6), 1302 - 1321.

If you are using the selective visual arrays:

Martin et al. (2021)

The visual arrays task: Visual storage capacity or attention control? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0001048

Vogel, McCollough, & Machizawa (2005)

Neural measures reveal individual differences in controlling access to working memory Nature, 438(24), 500 - 503.