Emotional Stroop Test - ABCD Consortium - Keyboard

Technical Manual

Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

This script has been made available to the Millisecond Test Library by the ABCD Research Consortium.
The script was originally designed for ABCD to be run on ipads and
was adapted by Millisecond to run with keyboards for the Millisecond Library.
In this script the 'good' key is on the right and the 'bad' key is on the left.

Created: January 26, 2017

Last Modified: January 17, 2023 by K. Borchert (katjab@millisecond.com), Millisecond

Script Copyright © Millisecond Software, LLC

Background

This Inquisit script implements an Emotional Stroop Script designed for a touchcreen. The Inquisit script is based on an existing e-prime script by: Dr. Marie Banich

Duration

10 minutes

Description

Participants categorize words as "good" feeling (happy, joyful) or a "bad" feeling (angry, upset). The words are presented on the top or bottom of images. The image either show a word congruent face emotion (e.g. "happy" face paired with word "joyful") or an incongruent one (e.g. "happy face" paired with word "angry"). Images depict happy and angry emotions of teens. Participants work through 2 test blocks: one block presents 25% incongruent pairings and 75% congruent pairings, and the other block presents an equal number of congruent and incongruent pairings. Block order is determined randomly.

In this script, the response button for 'bad' is located on the left side and the response button for 'good' is located on the right side of the screen.

Procedure

1. Practice Block: 8 trials selected from 6 possible combinations
=> feedback provided
=> practice block is repeated if proportion correct of the last 8 trials is < 75%

2. Practice Block: 4 trials (good-top-congruent, good-bottom-incongruent, bad-bottom-congruent, bad-top-incongruent)
=> feedback provided
=> practice block is repeated if proportion correct is < 100%


3. 2 Test Blocks:

(1) More Congruent Pairings: 48 trials - order of trials randomly determined
-36 congruent word valence - pic valence pairings (fixed pairs)
-12 incongruent word valence - pic valence pairings (fixed pairs)
- half the words appear on top of image, the other on the bottom

(2) Equal number of congruent and incongruent pairings
-24 congruent word valence - pic valence pairings (fixed pairs)
-24 incongruent word valence - pic valence pairings (fixed pairs)
- half the words appear on top of image, the other on the bottom

Trial Sequence:
Word/image (for: 2000ms) -> ITI: 1500ms (during practice: ITI provides feedback for 2000ms)

Stimuli

provided by ABCD research consortium.
pictures taken from: The NIMH Child Emotional Faces Picture Set (NIMH-ChEFS)
https://devepi.duhs.duke.edu/NIMH_Pictures.html

•position of words on images as well as size of words and images can be edited under section Editable Parameters
•words are presented in cyan with a black shadow

Instructions

provided by ABCD research consortium - can be edited under section Editable Instructions

Summary Data

File Name: abcdemotionalstroop_ln_summary*.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
inquisit.version Inquisit version number
computer.platform Device platform: win | mac |ios | android
startDate Date the session was run
startTime Time the session was run
subjectId Participant ID
groupId Group number
sessionId Session number
elapsedTime Session duration in ms
completed 0 = Test was not completed
1 = Test was completed
keyAssignment "leftnegative" => left response key is negative; right response key is positive
accPractice1 Proportion correct in final practice1 run
practice1Runs Number of practice1 runs needed
accPractice2 Proportion correct in final practice2 run
practice2Runs Number of practice2 runs needed
accAll Proportion correct overall (across all test trials)
accMoreCongruent Proportion correct in "more congruent pairings" block
accMoreCongruentCongruent Proportion correct on congruent trials in "more congruent pairings" block
accMoreCongruentIncongruent Proportion correct on incongruent trials in "more congruent pairings" block
accEqual Proportion correct in "equal numbers of congruentincongruent pairings" block
accEqualCongruent Proportion correct in "equal numbers of congruentincongruent pairings" block
accEqualIncongrent Proportion correct in "equal numbers of congruentincongruent pairings" block
accCongruent Proportion correct in "congruent" pairings trials (across test blocks)
accIncongruent Proportion correct in "incongruent" pairings trials (across test blocks)
strConHapfEqualAcc Proportion correct of congruent 'happy face' trials in "equal numbers of congruentincongruent pairings" block
strConAngfEqualAcc Proportion correct of congruent 'angry face' trials in "equal numbers of congruentincongruent pairings" block
strIncHapfEqualAcc Proportion correct of incongruent 'happy face' trials in "equal numbers of congruentincongruent pairings" block
strIncAngfEqualAcc Proportion correct of incongruent 'angry face' trials in "equal numbers of congruentincongruent pairings" block
strConHapf75ConAcc Proportion correct of congruent 'happy face' trials in "more congruent pairings" block
strConAngf75ConAcc Proportion correct of congruent 'angry face' trials in "more congruent pairings" block
strIncHapf75ConAcc Proportion correct of incongruent 'happy face' trials in "more congruent pairings" block
strIncAngf75ConAcc Proportion correct of incongruent 'angry face' trials in "more congruent pairings" block
meanRTAll Mean correct latency (in ms) overall
meanRTMoreCongruent Mean correct latency (in ms) in "more congruent pairings" block
meanRTMoreCongruentCongruent Mean correct latency (in ms) on congruent trials in "more congruent pairings" block
meanRTMoreCongruentIncongruent:mean correct latency (in ms) on incongruent trials in "more congruent pairings" block
meanRTEqual Mean correct latency (in ms) in "equal numbers of congruentincongruent pairings" block
meanRTEqualCongruent Mean correct latency (in ms) in "equal numbers of congruentincongruent pairings" block
meanRTEqualIncongruent Mean correct latency (in ms) in "equal numbers of congruentincongruent pairings" block
meanRTCongruent Mean correct latency (in ms) in "congruent" pairings trials (across test blocks)
meanRTIncongruent Mean correct latency (in ms) in "incongruent" pairings trials (across test blocks)
strConHapfEqualRT Mean correct response times (in ms) in congruent 'happy face' trials in "equal numbers of congruentincongruent pairings" block
strConAngfEqualRT Mean correct response times (in ms) in congruent 'angry face' trials in "equal numbers of congruentincongruent pairings" block
strIncHapfEqualRT Mean correct response times (in ms) in incongruent 'happy face' trials in "equal numbers of congruentincongruent pairings" block
strIncAngfEqualRT Mean correct response times (in ms) in incongruent 'angry face' trials in "equal numbers of congruentincongruent pairings" block
strConHapf75ConRT Mean correct response times (in ms) in congruent 'happy face' trials in "more congruent pairings" block
strConAngf75ConRT Mean correct response times (in ms) in congruent 'angry face' trials in "more congruent pairings" block
strIncHapf75ConRT Mean correct response times (in ms) in incongruent 'happy face' trials in "more congruent pairings" block
strIncAngf75ConRT Mean correct response times (in ms) in incongruent 'angry face' trials in "more congruent pairings" block

Raw Data

File Name: abcdemotionalstroop_ln_raw*.iqdat

Data Fields

NameDescription
build Inquisit version number
computer.platform Device platform: win | mac |ios | android
date Date the session was run
time Time the session was run
subject Participant ID
group Group number
session Session number
blockCode Name of the current block
blockNum Number of the current block
trialCode Name of the current trial
trialNum Number of the current trial
keyAssignment "leftnegative" => left response key is negative; right response key is positive
wordPosition 1 = word appears on top; 2 = word appears on bottom
wordY Stores the vertical coordinate of the current word (in % of canvas height)
congruence 1 = congruent; 2 = incongruent (emotion word and emotion image depict opposite emotions)
selectStim Itemnumber of selected stimulus
stimulusitem.1- The presented stimuli in order of trial presentation
stimulusItem.3 1) an empty stimulus (clearScreen)
2) presented image
3) presented word
correctButton Stores the correct response button for the current trial
response The participant's response (scancode of response key)
16 = Q = left ("bad")
25 = P = right ("good")
correct Accuracy of response: 1 = correct response; 0 = otherwise
latency The response latency (in ms); measured from: onset of image/word pair
list.accuracy.mean Proportion correct of current block

Parameters

The procedure can be adjusted by setting the following parameters.

NameDescriptionDefault
wordPresentationTimePractice Word duration (in ms) during practice trials 2500ms
feedbackDuration Feedback duration (in ms) during practice
wordPresentationTimeTest Word duration (in ms) during test trials 2500ms
iti Intertrial interval (in ms) between test trials 1500ms
readyDuration Duration (in ms) of ready trial
interface
3000ms
wordSize Sizing of words proportional to canvas height 5%
picSize Sizing of images proportional to canvas height 45%
topY Vertical coordinate of top word in relation to canvas 40%
bottomY Vertical coordinate of bottom word in relation to canvas
top of canvas = 0%; bottom of canvas = 100%
60%
leftResponseKey The left response key "Q"
rightResponseKey The right response key "P"