Resting baselines
Eyes closed, eyes open: the resting reference of each participant.
SPARK · Cognitive Neuroscience · Research protocols
A finding is only as good as its protocol. SPARK builds reference protocols into the platform: resting baselines, sustained attention tasks and flow assessments, run the same way at every session.
Eyes closed, eyes open: the resting reference of each participant.
gradCPT, a reference sustained attention task (Esterman, 2013), in the zone and out of the zone.
Difficulty varied block by block, with the Flow Short Scale (Rheinberg) after each block.
Running the same protocol, the same way, makes sessions comparable across days, participants and sites.
Combined with the real task, it links what is measured in a controlled setting to what happens under real pressure.
Protocols that travel.
Protocols run on the platform before, during or after the task, and their results land in the same recording as the real situation.
Each participant starts with a resting baseline, then a sustained attention task, before the real task.
The same protocols, run the same way, make participants and sessions comparable.
The researcher relates the controlled measures to what happens in the real task.
A resting baseline eyes closed and eyes open, the gradCPT sustained attention task, and a flow assessment with the Flow Short Scale.
Yes: before, during or after the task, with the results in the same recording.
From the scientific literature: gradCPT (Esterman and colleagues, 2013) and the Flow Short Scale (Rheinberg and colleagues, 2003).
Attention, memory, brain plasticity and cognitive processes, studied in real conditions.
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