Attention & cognitive control
How well you focus, hold your impulses, and ignore noise.
- Stroop Name the ink colour, not the word — the classic clash between automatic reading and deliberate attention.
- Eriksen flanker Respond to the centre arrow while ignoring misleading arrows either side — resistance to distraction.
- Go / No-Go Tap on one cue, hold perfectly still on the other — a direct measure of impulse control.
- Stop-signal task (SST) Cancel an already-started tap the instant a stop signal appears — times your brain's internal brakes.
- Task switching Flip back and forth between sorting rules — the mental cost of changing gears, measured precisely.