Flanker Task
FREE for use with an Inquisit Lab or Inquisit Web license.Available Test Variations
An implementation of the Flanker Task as developed by Eriksen & Eriksen (1974).
The Flanker Task for adolescents used in the ABCD Consortium's longitudinal study on cognitive development from childhood to early adulthood.
The Flanker Task for adolescents used in the ABCD Consortium's longitudinal study on cognitive development from childhood to early adulthood.
An reduced design arrow flanker task based on Ridderinkhof et al (1997) using the keyboard as response input
An reduced design arrow flanker task based on Ridderinkhof et al (1997) using the touchscreen for input
The Child Flanker Task created by Christ et al (2011), which uses fish as stimuli.
A shortened Fish Flanker Task for children (touchscreen)
References
Search Google Scholar for peer-reviewed, published research using the Inquisit Flanker Task.
Eriksen, B. A., & Eriksen, C. W. (1974). Effects of noise letters upon identification of a target letter in a nonsearch task. Perception & Psychophysics, 16, 143-149.
Ridderinkhof, K. R., van der Molen, M. W., Band, P. H., & Bashore, T. R. (1997). Sources of interference from irrelevant information: A developmental study. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 65, 315–341.
Cagigas, X.E., Filoteo, J.V., Stricker, J.L., Rilling, L.M., & Friedrich, F.J. (2007). Flanker compatibility effects in patients with Parkinson’s disease: Impact of target onset delay and trial-by-trial stimulus variation, Brain and Cognition, 63, 247-259.
Salthouse, T.A. (2010). Is flanker-based inhibition related to age? Identifying specific influences of individual differences on neurocognitive variables. Brain and Cognition, 73,51-61.
White, C.N., Ratcliff, R., & Starns, J.J. (2011). Diffusion models of the flanker task: Discrete versus gradual attentional selection. Cognitive Psychology, 63, 210-238.
Christ, S.E., Kester, L.E., Bodner, K.E. & Miles, J.H. (2011). Evidence for Selective Inhibitory Impairment in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder. Neuropsychology, 25, 690–701.
Johnstone, S.J. & Galletta, D. (2012). Event-rate effects in the flanker task: ERPs and task performance in children with and without AD/HD. International Journal of Psychophysiology,
Luciana, M, Bjork, J.M, Nagel, B.J, Barch, D.M, Gonzalez, R, Nixon, S.J, & Banich, M.T. (2018). Adolescent neurocognitive development and impacts of substance use: Overview of the adolescent brain cognitive development (ABCD) baseline neurocognition battery. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 32, 67-79.