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Go No Go

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Description

In a Go No Go task the participant is instructed to respond to a stimulus with a key press and asked to withold a response to a second stimulus. In thos task colours and shapes are used. The participant shopuld press the spacebar when they see a circle or square in the colours red/blue/yellow/green but asked to withold a response to a triangle in the same colours. Size of the stimulus is also manipulated.

Figure 1: A single trial in the Go No Go Task
Figure to show a single trial in the experiment

Reference

Verbruggen, F. & Logan, G.D. (2008). Automatic and controlled response inhibition: Associative learning in the go/no-go and stop-signal paradigms. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 137(4), 649-672