Infant Stop Signal Anticipation Task

The Stop Signal Anticipation task is adopted from Zandbelt and Vink (Vink et al., 2014, Zandbelt et al., 2008) and is also used as MRI task in the YOUth Child and Adolescent cohort. The Stop Signal Anticipation task measures response inhibition, which is considered an important aspect of behavioral control. In the task, children are instructed to stop a moving bar (a "frog's tongue") at a specific location (go trials) by pressing the space bar. In some trials, the bar stops moving (stop signal) and participants need to inhibit their stopping response. A cue at the beginning of the trial indicates the probability that the bar will stop (a yellow frog meaning the probably of stopping is low, a purple frog if it is high). The onset of the stop signal varies from one trial to the next according to a staircase procedure that is dependent on the participant’s response time (Zandbelt et al., 2008). The children are trained prior to the task to ensure that they understand the instructions. The training takes approximately 5 minutes, task duration is 10 minutes.

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  • Baby and Child

  • 6 years
    •   C
    5.0 - 7.0 years   From 2022-07-01 to 2023-11-01
    Mode of collection MeasurementsAndTests    Behavioral/cognitive task
    Analysis unit Individual
    Instrument name Infant Stop Signal Anticipation Test
    Measure name Infant Stop Signal Anticipation Test
    References
    Vink, M., Zandbelt, B. B., Gladwin, T., Hillegers, M., Hoogendam, J. M., van den Wildenberg, W. P. M., Du Plessis, S., & Kahn, R. S. (2014). Frontostriatal activity and connectivity increase during proactive inhibition across adolescence and early adulthood. Human Brain Mapping, 35(9), 4415–4427. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.22483
    Vink, M., Kaldewaij, R., Zandbelt, B. B., Pas, P., & du Plessis, S. (2015). The role of stop‐signal probability and expectation in proactive inhibition. European Journal of Neuroscience, 41(8), 1086–1094. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejn.12879
    Onland-Moret, N. C., Buizer-Voskamp, J. E., Albers, M. E. W. A., Brouwer, R. M., Buimer, E. E. L., Hessels, R. S., de Heus, R., Huijding, J., Junge, C. M. M., Mandl, R. C. W., Pas, P., Vink, M., van der Wal, J. J. M., Hulshoff Pol, H. E., & Kemner, C. (2020). The YOUth study: Rationale, design, and study procedures. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 46, 100868. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100868
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