Table 1.
Descriptions of the tasks involved in the Wellbeing data set. Much of the text is reproduced from Table S1 (Supplementary Material) of the Wellbeing analysis in (28). In parentheses, we provide conventional names for the tasks that we will use throughout the remainder of the manuscript based on the original reference for each task given in the Description.
Task | Description |
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Emotional pictures (affect) | Subjects see photographs of the screen, one at a time. These photographs appear to the left or right of the center of the screen. The task is to indicate whether the picture is shifted to the left or right relative to green dot in the center of the screen. (20) |
Emotional faces (empathy) | Subjects are presented with male and female faces, one at a time. The task is to determine whether the faces are male or female. There are task conditions for neutral, happy, sad, and fearful faces (35). |
Episodic memory (encoding) | Subjects see name and face pairings on a screen. The task is to decide whether the name goes well with the face on a 1 to 4 (poor to well) scale. There are four face conditions: young and old faces that are novel or have been repeated during the experiment (36). |
Episodic memory (retrieval) | Subjects are asked to remember which names were paired with which faces from the episodic memory encoding task. The task is to indicate whether the face name pairs are the same from the previous task, completely novel, or if the face is repeated, but was not paired with the given name (36). |
Go/No-Go | Subjects look images of single letters. They are asked to press a button when the letter is in the set A, B, C, D, and E and not to press the button when the letter is in the set X, Y, and Z (37). |
Monetary incentive delay (reward) | Subjects are asked to press a button as quickly as possible when a white square (cue) appears on the screen. Participants either win or lose money based on when and how fast they push the button (38). |
Working memory | Subjects are presented with a sequence of letters and switch between two memory tasks. In the first, subjects are asked to indicate whether the current letter is underlined. In the second, subjects are asked to indicate whether the current letter is the same as or dierent from the one that was presented two letters ago (39). |
Theory of mind (ToM) | Subjects are presented with stories and true false statements about the stories. The task is to indicate whether the statement was true or false (40). |
Resting state | Subjects are asked to close eyes, feel relaxed but stay awake. |