Table 2.
Concept and no. of papers reporting each measure
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Working memory | No. of papers | Response selection | No. of papers | Response inhibition | No. of papers | Task switching/ set shifting | No. of papers | |
Tasks | N-back | 7 | Choice RT | 6 | Stop-signal | 10 | WCST | 9 |
Digit Span | 4 | Changing response mapping tasks | 3 | Go-NoGo | 7 (3) | Switch between 2 Stimuli | 7 (2) | |
Sternberg (set size) tasks | 3 | The Simon task | 2 (1) | Stroop | 6 (3) | ID/ED (CANTAB) | 6 | |
Delayed Match2Sample | 3 | Anti-saccade | 2 | Trails | 5 | |||
Box&Token task (Spatial) | 2 | |||||||
Total no. of papers/ concept | 19 | 11 (1) | 25 (6) | 27 (2) |
Abbreviations: CANTAB, Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery; ED, extra-dimensional; ID, intradimensional; RT, reaction time; WCST, Wisconsin Card Sorting Test.
Measures most frequently used in the literature to assess each of the four subcomponents of cognitive control. Tasks are ranked by frequency of occurrence in each 30-paper subset. Tasks used in the 30-paper subset for ‘cognitive control’ itself were allocated to the relevant subcomponent are shown in parentheses. Only tasks used in more than one paper are listed.