One study link
Turn on the open link in the study's Recruitment panel and choose Sona Systems. The link carries each student's survey code.
How the open link worksUse case: student participant pools
Run cognitive tests with your student participant pool
Share one study link with your Sona Systems pool or department sign-up page. Students start from the link, take short scored tests in their browser, and return to Sona for credit after the last test.
Tests of 5 minutes or less
19 of the 47 tests take 5 minutes or less, by the durations in the test library. Timed tests are marked.
- Simple Reaction Time2-3 min · timed
- Trail Making Test A2-3 min · timed
- 1-Back Task3-4 min · timed
- Choice Reaction Time3-4 min · timed
- Posner Cueing3-4 min · timed
- Serial Reaction Time3-4 min · timed
- Simon Task2-4 min · timed
- 2-Back Task4-5 min · timed
- Category Fluency3-5 min
- Change Detection3-5 min · timed
- Delay Discounting3-5 min
- Eriksen Flanker Task4-5 min · timed
- Go/No-Go Task4-5 min · timed
- Mental Rotation3-5 min · timed
- Pattern Recognition Memory4-5 min
- Rapid Visual Information Processing4-5 min · timed
- Spatial Recognition Memory4-5 min
- Symbol Coding4-5 min · timed
- Trail Making Test B3-5 min · timed
Every test with its scores: the full test list.
One link and automatic credit
Credit after the last test
After the last test, ConductCognition sends the student to Sona's completion URL with their survey code, and Sona grants the credit.
Sona setup guideOther recruitment
The same link works with Prolific, CloudResearch Connect and Qualtrics, or shows a completion code on screen.
Prolific setup guideWhat to put in the study description
15 untimed tests run on phones and 17 on tablets. 27 of the 47 tests are timed and need a laptop or desktop with a mouse or trackpad, so a study with a timed test needs one. Say in the pool listing which device students need, and that the browser must be Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari.
Quality checks for unsupervised sessions
Students take pool studies on their own computers, without a researcher in the room. Every session is checked the same way.
Before the first test
The device check confirms the browser, screen size, full screen and input before the session starts.
During the tests
Full-screen exits, switches to another tab and pauses are recorded with the session.
In the responses
Responses faster than 100 ms, omitted responses and very low accuracy are flagged.
Across the study
Each session is marked valid, needs review or invalid, with the reason, and the study shows the counts.
Study Quality MonitorWhat it costs
Studies that use only the 6 free tests are free for up to 50 participants each, with up to 3 active studies. Any other test costs $0.99 per participant with pay as you go, or comes with a yearly plan. See pricing.
Questions from pool coordinators
Do students need to install anything?
No. The tests run in Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari, in full screen.
Can students take part on a phone?
Yes, for untimed tests: 15 untimed tests run on phones and 17 on tablets. Timed tests need a desktop or laptop with a mouse or trackpad. A phone that cannot run every test in a study is stopped before the consent form. On an open study link, that person is not counted and uses no credit.
How do students get credit?
With Sona Systems, the study link carries each student's survey code, and after the last test ConductCognition sends the student to Sona's completion URL, which grants credit. Other pool systems can use a completion code shown on screen.
What if a student stops partway?
Opening the same pool link again with the same survey code continues the same participant record. A participant who comes back continues from the next unfinished test, and a test that was interrupted starts again.
How do we spot careless sessions?
Each session records full-screen exits, switches to another tab, responses faster than 100 ms and omitted responses, and is marked valid, needs review or invalid with the reason. The Study Quality Monitor shows the counts for the study.
What does a pool study cost?
Studies that use only the 6 free tests are free for up to 50 participants each. Other tests are $0.99 per participant with pay as you go, or part of a yearly plan.
Set up a pool study
Create the study, preview the tests, then connect it to Sona.