Gradual Continuous Performance Task (gradCPT)
A continuous performance task variant in which stimuli fade smoothly from one to the next (gradient cross-fades, no abrupt onsets), so target-onset times are implicit. Participants respond to frequent go-targets and withhold for rare no-go targets; the continuous fading makes withholding effortful and exposes lapses of sustained attention via commission errors, reaction-time variability, and vigilance-decrement slopes. Introduced by Esterman et al. (2013) as a sensitive probe of sustained attention.
- Attention
- Inhibitory Control
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Key references
- Esterman, M., Noonan, S. K., Rosenberg, M., & DeGutis, J. (2013). In the zone or zoning out? Tracking behavioral and neural fluctuations during sustained attention. Cerebral Cortex, 23(11), 2712-2723. doi:10.1093/cercor/bhs261