RDoC Unit of Analysis: Paradigms

• 24 hour LD light/dark (LD) cycle (test for entrainment of rhythms)
• 2-step Task
• Ability to answer questions about the content of sentences and discourse
• Ability to distinguish between coherent and incoherent sentences and discourse
• acquired equivalence
• Actigraphy and other test of motor activity
• Actigraphy of human circadian rest-activity rhythms in the real world
• Action observation
• Action-Perception loops
• Acute melatonin suppression by light (relative index of the sensitivity of the circadian system to light, e.g. wavelength, intensity, duration curves)
• Antisaccade
• Armed bandit task
• Arousal threshold testing
• attentional blink and psychological refractory period paradigm
• attention blindness
• Attributions of contingent behavior
• Auditory arousal threshold
• Auditory masking
• auditory scene perception (e.g., streaming)
• AX-Continuous Performance Task/Dot Pattern Expectancy Task
• AX paradigms
• Backward masking
• Badre tasks
• Behavioral Approach Test
• Biological Motion discrimination (with and without emotion),
• Biological motion processing
• Bioluminscent/, fluorescent real-time gene expression imaging
• Bistability
• blocked channel-selection tasks
• Carbon dioxide challenge test
• Card choice/gambling task
• Cardiac Pre-ejection Period
• Categorization
• CELF Prosody
• Change detection tasks
• Chimeric tasks
• Coherent motion
• Cold Pressor Test
• Complex Span tasks
• computational linguistics
• Computer interface tasks
• Conditioning paradigms
• Conflicting and contralateral motor response task
• Contextual Threat
• Contour integration/interpolation
• Contrast sensitivity
• Cortisol awakening response
• Counterfactual learning
• Countermanding
• Cross-modal interactions
• Cross modality paradigms
• Cued stimulus-response reversal tasks
• Cue reactivity
• Cyberball
• Daily sleep diaries
• darkness (in humans)
• Delay discounting
• delayed match to non sample
• delayed match to sample
• delayed recall
• Detection and classification of semantic relationships between words
• Detection of speech in noise
• deterministic reinforcement learning
• devaluation
• Devaluation task
• Deviance detection
• dichotic listening
• Dim Light Melatonin Onset (DLMO, phase estimate)
• Directed facial action tasks expression: FACS and FACES coding system
• Directors Task
• Discrepancies in self and peer ratings [i.e., peer nomination]
• distraction paradigms (capture)
• Distress paradigms
• Drifting Double Bandit
• dual task paradigm
• Dual Task Paradigms
• Dunbar’s Intentionality Questionnaire
• Dynamic Social stimulus tasks
• Effort-Expenditure for Rewards Task
• Electroencephalography
• EEG and EMG recording
• Effort-related choice behavior (effort discounting)
• Electrodermal Responding
• Emotional face expression tests
• Emotional Stroop/emotional go/no-go
• Emotion expression identification
• Empathic Accuracy Tasks
• Eye-blink
• Eyelid closure
• Face feature manipulation
• Face identification
• Face priming tasks
• Faux Pas
• Fear conditioning
• Fear extinction
• Figure ground
• Finger Tapping Motor Sequence Task
• Fixed-Ratio Satiation Schedule
• Flanker
• fMRI/PET
• Ford Corollary Discharge Paradigm
• Functional magnetic resonance imaging
• Gambling/guessing tasks
• Gating
• Gaze Cuing
• Go/Nogo
• Go-Before-You-Know
• Habit Learning Task
• Habit Task
• Heart rate variability (HRV)
• Hinting Task
• How/Why Task
• How component of Why/How Task
• Human-Computer interaction
• Identification of one’s own biological motion
• illusions of will
• Imitation
• Imitation of affect
• Implicit social perception tasks
• Indices of neural activity such as local field potentials and single neuron recordings
• inhibitory control
• Instrumental conditioning and all its variants
• inter-modal selective attention
• Irony comprehension
• Joint attention tasks
• JOVI
• Joy Stick manipulation (decoupling motor and sensory feedback)
• Kahneman-Spinner paradigm
• keep track task
• knot tying
• Koechlin paradigm
• Laboratory Temperament Assessment Battery
• Language vs. non-language discrimination
• Latency to persistent sleep
• Lateral facilitation
• Letter memory/running memory
• Letter Number Sequencing
• Libet’s Temporal Judgement
• light (in rodents)
• Linguistic corpus-based analyses of language output
• list and story learning
• Listening and reading times to critical words and regions in linguistic input
• Local computations
• Locomotor activity
• Longitudinal Actigraphy
• long-term probabilistic response learning
• Maintenance of wakefulness test
• Maintenance of wakefulness testing
• Manipulation of interstimulus interval and/or intensity
• Manipulations of different types of coherence and cohesion between clauses in discourse
• Manipulations of different types of relationships between individual words in priming paradigms
• Manipulations of predictability and acceptability, at different levels of representation, in a linguistic input
• Manipulations of relationships between language and non-verbal behaviors
• Masking (e.g., sleep effect on cognitive behavioral therapy)
• Masking paradigms
• maze learning
• McGurk effect (multisensory)
• Measurement of slow eye movements during wakefulness
• MEG
• Meta-cognition Tasks
• Modified Iowa Gambling Task
• Monetary Incentive Delay
• Motor Evoked Potential Latency
• Motor persistence paradigms (e.g. NEPSY statue task)
• Multimodal Social Paradigms
• Multiple sleep latency testing
• Multistability
• Naming
• N-back
• Neurobehavioral testing in relation to sleep
• Nocturnal polysomnography
• Non-24-hour sleep-wake schedules
• Non-learning/passive gambling/guessing tasks
• Nonlocal properties of images
• Non-REM Sleep EEG slow wave activity
• Non verbal decoding tasks
• novelty/oddball detection
• NPU Threat Task
• Object perception
• Object recognition/perceptual closure/perceptual organization
• Odd-ball tasks
• Olfactory hedonics measures
• One-armed Bandit Task
• Other attention paradigms
• other automated facial analysis
• Other Trait or State Judgments
• Paired associate learning
• Parallel/serial search
• Patterns of eye movements (in eye tracking paradigms) or motor movements (in mouse tracking paradigms) to critical words and regions in linguistic input
• Patterns of eye movements to non-verbal visual stimuli during spoken language comprehension (the visual world paradigm)
• Pavlovian conditioning
• Penn Emotion Recognition (ER-40)
• Perseveration tasks
• PET
• Phase response curve (PRC, phase dependent effects of single light [or other stimulus] pulses delivered at different circadian phases)
• Physical and relational aggression paradigms
• Point-light displays
• Point Light Displays of Biological Motion
• Prediction error tasks
• Probabilistic Reward Task
• Probabilistic Stimulus Selection Task
• Probability Choice Task
• Profile of non-verbal sensitivity
• Progressive ratio task
• Provocative tasks/settings to elicit expressions
• Point Subtraction Aggression Paradigm
• Psycho-motor vigilance and other continuous performance tasks
• Psychomotor Vigilance Task
• Pupillary light reflex (acute measure of rod, cone and melanopsin photosensitivity);
• Pupillometry
• Reading
• Reading the Mind in the Eyes
• Reality Monitoring
• Re-entrant processing
• Regularity and change detection
• Relived Memories paradigm
• Representations of external objects
• resident/human intruder test
• response time acceleration
• Retinotopic representations
• Rutledge Passive Lottery Task
• Sadness eliciting film clips
• same-different tasks
• Scheduleless key press to view or avoid pictures (e.g., “beautiful faces”)
• Self Judgments
• self-monitoring
• Self-Ordered Pointing
• Self-Other Morphs
• Self reference effect
• Self-Referential Memory Paradigm
• Self-report methods include retrospective symptom and sleep reports, daily sleep diaries
• Sensory Motor Adaptation Tasks
• Sensory threshold testing (ERG, ERP, etc.)
• Sentence Prosody tests
• Separation
• sequence encoding and reproduction
• serial response task
• Simon
• Simple Guessing Task
• Simple Span Tasks
• Sleep-dependent memory consolidation, fear extinction
• Sleep measures (see Sleep-Wake paradigms)
• Sleep Spindles
• smell identification
• Snaith Hamilton Pleasure Scale
• Social Buffering of Stress
• social dominance test
• Social Flanker
• Social games e.g. cyberball
• Social Reward paradigms
• spatial and non-spatial cuing paradigms,
• Startle
• Sternberg Item Recognition
• Still Face paradigm
• Stimulus-Resp Incompat
• Stop-Signal Reaction Time
• Stranger Tests
• Strange Situation
• Strange Stores
• Stroop
• Task switching
• Taste reactivity
• T cycles (non-24 hour LD cycles);
• Theory of Mind Tasks in children
• time-series of response times to extract variability and frequency domain analyses
• TMS
• tone detection (e.g., JND tasks)
• Tone matching
• Total, partial, and stage-selective deprivation paradigms
• Total sleep time
• Tower tasks
• Transformations beyond retinotopic representations
• transitive inference
• Trier Social Stress Test
• Value-based decision making (e.g., preference test)
• Vernier discrimination
• Visual illusion susceptibility
• visual search
• Vocal production coding systems e.g., spectral analysis
• Wake time after sleep onset
• Why component of Why/How Task
• Willingness to Pay Task
• “Thin slices” of non-verbal behavior test