Table 2.

Most commonly used cognitive control tasks

Concept and no. of papers reporting each measure
	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.