Hello, can anyone recommend me a straightforward and easily administrable task capturing executive inhibition of verbal (lexical-semantic and/or associative) stimuli (e.g. inhibiting free associations or a kind of rapid lexical/semantic/associative Go-noGo paradigm, etc.)? This task should generally reflect the control/filtering component of complex semantic retrieval during idea generation.
Thank you for any reference,
Sincerely,
Martin
You could just present participants with word lists (one word on display at a time) and have go and no-go trials in which they should either think of an associated word or not (e.g., word written in green for go trials and written in red for no-go trials). That's really easy to code and very straight-forward.
And if you want to test whether participants actually thought or did not think about an associate, you could ask them to generate (oral or written response) associations for all words (former go and no-go items) in a second session. Response times should be faster for the former go trials.
THE HAYLING TASK.
In this task you must, in the first part, complete a sentence with the word expected... the time is calculated for each item. In the second part (inhibition) you must complete the sentence with another word that maintenance no relation to the given sentence. The number of errors of inhibition as well as the response time for each item is counted.
you can also use a Stroop paradigm (inhibition of reading (see file)
Hello,
thank you both for the resposnes! Meanwhile, we developed a prototype of "inhibition fluency" task that closely resembles classical verbal fluency (e.g. name instances of a category), however subjects chain each word after another by producing a new association to the last associaton. This is variabt "A". In variant "B", subjects have to do the same, however, they do not produce any associates but "dissociates" (a word that IS NOT meaningfully associated with the last word). The idea is that that subjects need to inhibit first responses that occur automatically and then switch to another semantic field that is unrelated. There is also "C" variant where the A and B are mixed and change randomly during one longer chain (additional time needed to switch bettwen associating and dissociating). We are currently doing some preliminary tests that confirm that indeed the inter-response interval (to produce another association) is robustly higher in dissociating and participants refer that conventional automatic associations are intrusing their mind and need to be activelly inhibited. So, we consider to use a difference (A-B) or even normed-difference scores (A-B/A). Anyways, this somehow links some of the suggestions you providied, so thank you again!
Best regards,
M
great idea!!! It will probably be useful in clinical population of mild cognitive disorders (MCI (f), Asperger's, mild disexecutive assesment,Mild traumatic brain injury
However sensitivity will be very strong and had needed normative data by age, and socio-cultural level!
Congratulation,
François
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