Cognitive tasks battery
Cognitive Tasks consists of a set of cognitive methods developed in our ADHD/LD Cognition Lab at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), to measure time perception, inhibitory control, and working memory.
These tasks, which require E-Prime software, are designed to be shared with other researchers and research groups. However, we request that you contact Rosemary Tannock for use of any Cognitive tasks tools and methods.
Background
One major challenge facing researchers wanting to study cognitive functioning in ADHD is that there multiple versions of most of the promising experimental tasks that measure cognitive functions thought to be impaired in ADHD.
Subtle differences in task parameters (e.g., stimulus modality and duration, inter-stimulus interval) and in the precision of measurement supported by various software programs, may obscure or exaggerate cognitive problems and account in part for inconsistent findings.
Accordingly, a group of international investigators who convened at the 4th International Meeting of the Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Molecular Genetics Network (2002) (1), 1st Meeting of the ADHD Neuroscience Network (ANNET; 2003); and the annual meeting of the European Network on Hyperkinetic Disorders (EUNETHYDIS; 2003) agreed that one major objective was to develop and standardize a core set of promising cognitive methods, using a common software platform (E-Prime). A second objective was to make these tasks available at no cost to international members of these groups.
(1) Please see Faraone et al, 2003 AM J Med Genetics (for report of Genetic network).