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Response Inhibition

Affective Go/No-Go Task

Measure emotional response inhibition with alternating positive-word and negative-word target rules.

Useful for affective-bias studies, mood-state research, and CANTAB-adjacent inhibition batteries.

Response Inhibition5-6 minBrowser-based testing workflow
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What this task measures

Measures affective response inhibition by asking participants to respond to words from one emotional valence while withholding responses to the other.

Core constructs

  • Affective response inhibition
  • Emotional flexibility
  • Valence bias
  • Set switching

Research fit

  • Affective inhibition studies
  • Mood-state and emotional-bias research
  • Response inhibition batteries
  • CANTAB-comparison workflows where licensed AGN word sets are not available

Why researchers use ConductCognition

  • Hosted browser delivery with no local install burden for participants.
  • Study setup, scoring, exports, and participant links in one workflow.
  • Transparent pricing instead of opaque enterprise quoting for solo labs.
  • Free entry tier plus Academic Pro when you need the full battery and trial-level exports.

Paradigm overview

Affective Go/No-Go adapts the go/no-go inhibition paradigm to emotional word stimuli. Each block designates a target valence, and participants respond to target-valence words while withholding responses to non-target words.

The browser version alternates positive-go and negative-go rules to capture affective switching, omission errors, commission errors, and response-time asymmetry. The current stimuli are a public-domain starter word set rather than ANEW or NRC VAD data, avoiding restricted lexicon redistribution while preserving the task structure.

Key scoring outputs

Affective Shift Cost

ms

RT cost on first trials after a block-rule switch relative to later trials.

Lower is better

Positive Target RT

ms

Mean response time on correct positive-target trials.

Lower is better

Negative Target RT

ms

Mean response time on correct negative-target trials.

Lower is better

Positive-Rule Commissions

count

Responses made to non-target words in positive-target blocks.

Lower is better

Negative-Rule Commissions

count

Responses made to non-target words in negative-target blocks.

Lower is better

Positive-Rule Omissions

count

Missed responses to positive targets.

Lower is better

Negative-Rule Omissions

count

Missed responses to negative targets.

Lower is better

Research evidence and scoring context

Murphy FC et al. (1999), Erickson K et al. (2005), and Rubinsztein JS et al. (2006) healthy-control AGN samples.

N 11618-79

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Research FAQ

Common questions about this online cognitive test

Can I run the Affective Go/No-Go Task online?

Yes. ConductCognition runs the Affective Go/No-Go Task in a browser-based participant flow with study setup, automated scoring, and export-ready results.

What does this test measure?

Affective Go/No-Go Task is used for affective response inhibition, emotional flexibility, valence bias research workflows.

What data can researchers export?

Researchers can export scored results, and paid plans support trial-level exports for deeper analysis.

Is this for clinical diagnosis?

ConductCognition is for research use. The platform supports task delivery, scoring, and exports; clinical interpretation remains outside the platform.