Table 2.

Design Principles for Building a Clinically Relevant Cognitive Task⁴¹

	Desiderata:	Justification
1	A task should have a foundation in existing literature and therefore stay as close as possible to an existing task	Increase likelihood of building upon previous findings, decrease piloting time
2	A task should be simple, frequently accomplished by paring down a task to evaluate the function of interest	Increase interpretability in terms of cognitive mechanism, increase likelihood of computational modeling, may increase likelihood of animal model
3	A task should probe a mechanism of interest, with conditions that selectively manipulate this mechanism	Increase interpretability of pattern of performance, provides within-subject contrasts of interest
4	A task should be able to distinguish a specific deficit on mechanism of interest from a generalized impairment	Increase interpretability of individual differences in performance