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Impulsivity and Substance Use Battery

Four tasks of impulsive action and impulsive choice for substance use research: withholding and stopping responses, delay discounting and risk taking.

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Tests: 4, in a fixed order
Evidence: BGrade B
Time: About 26 minutes
Device: Timed tests: participants need a desktop or laptop with a mouse or trackpad.
Languages: Runs in all eight participant languages.
Price: $0.99 academic or $2.49 commercial, per participant
Version: 1.0.0

Research use only

Tests in order

Participants take the tests in this order, each with its standard settings. Changing, reordering or adjusting a test makes the study a custom study.

1
Go/No-Go Task
AEvidenceMain score: d-Prime
4-5 min
2
Stop-Signal Task
BEvidenceMain score: Stop-Signal Reaction Time
5-7 min
3
Delay Discounting
AEvidenceMain score: Area Under the Curve
3-5 min
4
Balloon Risk
BEvidenceMain score: Adjusted Average Pumps
5-9 min

Timed tests: participants need a desktop or laptop with a mouse or trackpad. The app checks each participant's device before the first test.

Other orders

Possible orders: 24
In a balanced Latin square: 4

The 4 orders of a balanced Latin square, each test as its number in the list above
Order	1st	2nd	3rd	4th
1	1 Go/No-Go Task	2 Stop-Signal Task	4 Balloon Risk	3 Delay Discounting
2	2 Stop-Signal Task	3 Delay Discounting	1 Go/No-Go Task	4 Balloon Risk
3	3 Delay Discounting	4 Balloon Risk	2 Stop-Signal Task	1 Go/No-Go Task
4	4 Balloon Risk	1 Go/No-Go Task	3 Delay Discounting	2 Stop-Signal Task

A study run in this square can measure each test's position effect and the carryover each test leaves on the next.

Numbers are places in the list above. A study started from this battery gives everyone that order, or rotates it and stays this battery.

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Published evidence

A battery takes the grade most of its tests reach. A minus means some tests have a lower grade, and a battery is never more than one letter above its weakest test. The study builder grades every study the same way.

Grade B: every graded test has at least grade B published evidence. 2 tests have grade A evidence and 2 have grade B.

Grade A needs at least 25 test-retest papers and 25 registered clinical studies for each test. Stop-Signal Task has 23 test-retest papers; Balloon Risk has 13 test-retest papers.

Grade B means at least 8 test-retest papers, and either 5 registered clinical studies or 150 reliability or validity papers.

Grades describe the published research on each task, not this battery or ConductCognition's version of it. Source: ConductCognition test census 0.39.0, counted 31 October 2026 from OpenAlex and ClinicalTrials.gov. See every test's counts or every battery's grade

What it measures

Response inhibition
Action cancellation
Delay discounting
Risk taking

Suited to: Substance use and impulsivity research

Research areas: Substance use and impulsivity, ADHD, decisions and reward

Example report

Participant report

Example data

Test	Main score	Result	Session quality
Go/No-Go Task	d-Prime	3.21	Valid
Stop-Signal Task	Stop-Signal Reaction Time	353 ms	Valid
Delay Discounting	Area Under the Curve	41%	Valid
Balloon Risk	Adjusted Average Pumps	31.45 pumps	Valid

No test in this battery has a reference group yet, so the report shows raw scores.

In a study, the report lists every score of each test, a percentile where a published norm covers the test and the participant's age, and each session's quality.

Price

Each participant uses one credit, however many tests: $0.99 for academic research or $2.49 for commercial research. Every account starts with 10 free participants, and yearly plans include participants each year. Compare plans

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