Study

RobbinGobblin Study

Brain and Learning LabPI: Daphné Bavelier

An online cognitive-training study run at the Brain and Learning Lab (University of Geneva). Participants completed a five-task pre-test battery remotely (directed from Qualtrics through a study dashboard), were allocated to one of five groups minimization-matched on age and MOT performance, trained on the Robbin' Gobblin game, and completed the battery again at post-test. The tasks listed here are verbatim client-side ports of the lab-coded tasks the study ran (bavelierlab/rg-study): the PHP session/database layer was replaced with URL parameters, a localStorage screen-calibration record, and JSON data downloads — task behavior is unchanged. The UFOV port is the October 2024 corrected version (display-size and frame-duration fixes included).

Tasks
5
Total duration
~73 min
Languages
English
Domains covered
Attention · Inhibitory Control · Working Memory

Tasks in this study

  • Multiple Object Tracking (Online, RG Study)

    Validated
    HTML·English·online verified today

    Track the cued faces among moving distractors, then judge whether a queried face was originally cued — the online MOT used in the RobbinGobblin study.

    by Brain and Learning Lab

  • Useful Field of View (Online, Oct 2024 Corrected)

    Validated
    HTML·English·online verified today

    Identify a central face's hair length while localizing a briefly flashed peripheral star — the corrected online UFOV (display-size and frame-duration fixes included).

    by Brain and Learning Lab

  • Attentional Blink (RSVP Dual-Target)

    Validated
    HTML·English·online verified today

    In a fast letter stream, report the identity of a white T1 letter and whether a second target appeared — the AB task as run in the RobbinGobblin study.

    by Brain and Learning Lab

  • BLAST (Bron/Lyon Attention Stability Test)

    Validated
    HTML·English·online verified today

    A target letter is flashed, then a 4-letter array appears: press F if the target is in the array, J if not — the Bavelierlab-adapted BLAST measuring sustained attention.

    by Brain and Learning Lab

  • Test of Variables of Attention (ACE-X Adapted)

    Validated
    HTML·English·online verified today

    Respond when a blue square appears at the top of the screen, withhold when it appears at the bottom — sustained-attention and inhibition blocks adapted from ACE-X.

    by Brain and Learning Lab

Citations

  • Yung, A., Cardoso-Leite, P., Dale, G., Bavelier, D., & Green, C. S. (2015). Methods to test visual attention online. Journal of Visualized Experiments, (96), e52470. https://doi.org/10.3791/52470