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measure Stroop color-word task
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_ATTEF2 YC_ADHMRI YE_COG18The Stroop color-word task consists of pairs of conflicting word and color stimuli, both being inherent aspects of the same symbols, presented simultaneously, for example a name of one color printed in the ink of another color. The difference in time for reading the words printed in colors and the same words printed in black is the measure of the...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Verbal Fluency Test
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS2 YE_COG18The Verbal Fluency Test assesses how many words that belong to the same predetermined category participants can produce in a given time (usually 60 seconds). This category can be semantic, specified objects such as animals or fruits, or phonological, words beginning with a specified letter such as p.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Heart beat perception
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YE_ATTEF3In Heart beat perception, participants were asked to judge their own heart rate by introspective visceral awareness, i.e. without palpitating the arterial pulse signal at wrist or neck. They judged their mean heart rate per minute over three short periods (25, 35 and 45 seconds).Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Mental Rotations Test (MRT)
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YE_ATTEF3In the Mental Rotations Test (MRT), participants are asked to compare two-dimensional drawings and three- dimensional geometric figures in order to assess spatial processing.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Spatial N-back Task
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_COG18The Spatial N-back Task assesses visuospatial working memory. In the task, participants are instructed to remember and respond to the location of a stimulus on the screen throughout the task, either directly following the stimulus, or with a delay of one or more stimuli.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Raven's Progressive Matrices Test (RPM)
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_ATTEF3Raven's Progressive Matrices (often referred to simply as Raven's Matrices or RPM) is a non-verbal test used to measure general intelligence and abstract reasoning. It is one of the most common tests administered to both groups and individuals ranging from 5-years-olds to the elderly. It consists of 60 multiple choice questions, listed in order of...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET)
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YE_COG18The Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) assesses the ability to recognize complex mental states as expressed by human eyes. Participants pick one of four options (e.g. puzzled, nervous, insisting or contemplative) which they think best describes what the person in each photograph is thinking or feeling.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS3 YE_COG18The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) is an IQ test designed to measure intelligence and cognitive ability in adults and older adolescents. Most versions contain sub tests that represent the following components of intelligence: Verbal Comprehension Index (VCI), Perceptual Reasoning Index (PRI), Working Memory Index (WMI), Processing Speed Index...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Reading Span Task (RST)
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YE_ATTEF3The reading span task (RST) assesses memory span. The original RST required participants to read series of unconnected sentences aloud and to remember the final word of each sentence of a series (grouped according to the total number of sentences). With each sentence presented on a card, participants were cued to recall the memorized end-of-sentence words...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Corsi block-tapping task
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YC_BS3 YE_COG18The Corsi block tapping task assesses short-term visuospatial working memory. In the task, participants participants are presented with a sequence of blocks tapped in a specific order, and they must replicate the sequence by tapping the blocks in the same order. The task becomes progressively more challenging with longer sequences, serving as a measure of...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT)
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YE_COG18The California Verbal Learning Test (CVLT) is a measure of verbal learning and memory. In this task, a list of 16 items, with four words from each of four categories (fruits; herbs and spices; clothing; tools) is presented. The list is presented five times, and the participant is instructed to recall as many words as possible from the list following each...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure CITO score
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_12 YS_TRF12 YS_DHBQP YS_DHBQ14 YS_DHBQ16 YS_DHBQ18 YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_ATTEF2 YS_CITO YS_DT YS_TRIP age 12The CITO-test is a standardized test for educational achievement that is administered in the final grade (when children are 11 or 12 years old) of elementary school. The CITO-test consists of multiple choice items in 4 different educational skills, namely Arithmetic, Language, Study Skills, and Science and Social Studies. All scores on the scales are...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Box marking test
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS2 YE_COG18The Box Marking Test assesses the degree of handedness, by measuring hand skill by the number of boxes the participant can tick on a printed sheet in one minute. Each hand was tested separately, the right hand being tested first. A ratio between both hands was determined, by subtracting the right-hand score from the left-hand score, divided by the sum of...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Pi Inspection Time Task
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_COG18In the inspection time (IT) paradigm, participants view two lines of unequal length (called the Pi-figure) for a short exposure time, and then judge which of the two lines is longer.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_ATTEF2 YE_COG12 YE_COG18The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) is an IQ test for children of 6-17 years of age to determine general intelligence. It generates a full scale IQ (formerly known as an intelligence quotient or IQ score) that represents a child's general intellectual ability. The most common primary index scores are the Verbal Comprehension Index, the...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Electroencephalography (EEG) - Visuomotor adjustment paradigm
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests EEG Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Generation R 17-18 yearsElectrocardiography (EEG) was measured while participants performed a visuomotor adjustment paradigm to measure motor control.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Electroencephalography (EEG) - Go-No Go task
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests EEG Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Generation R 17-18 yearsElectrocardiography (EEG) was measured while participants performed a Go-No Go task to measure inhibitory control and error processing.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Facial Empathy task (EMP)
Study: RADAR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task EMG ECG Available measurements: Young Cohort RY - W5 RY - W6The Empathy Task (EMP) is a laboratory task that assesses motor, cognitive, and affective empathic responses, as well as heart rate reactivity by analyzing paticipants' responses during and after watching empathy-inducing video clips.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Leiden Public Speaking Task
Study: RADAR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task ECG Biological sample/measurement Available measurements: Young Cohort RY - W5 RY - W6The Leiden Public Speaking Task assesses physiological reactivity to social evaluation threat. The task contains five phases: baseline (of which 5 minutes standing, 15 minutes after start of the baseline), anticipation (3 mins), preparation (5 mins), speech delivery (5 mins), and recovery (of which 5 mins standing, approximately 10 mins after the end of...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024 -
measure Iowa and Bangor Gambling Tasks
Study: RADAR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Cohort RY - W5 RY - W6The Iowa and Bangor Gambling Tasks are psychological tasks thought to simulate real-life decision making. It measures an individual's approach to risk-taking, impulsivity, and ability to delay short-term gratification to achieve long-term rewards. The Bangor Gambling Task is a simplified version of the Iowa Gambling Task.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024