OpenScience

CIGEV OpenScience aims to optimize the efficient use of scientific resources and to enhance collaborative work by providing public access to different neuropsychological test batteries and cognitive assessments tools that have been repeatedly used and widely established in previous research.

The core goals of CIGEV OpenScience are (1) to provide detailed, transparent, copyright-free information that allow researchers to independently reproduce these tools for their own use and (2) to provide free access to ready-to-use materials in a collaborative context.

Below, you can find a brief summary of the different OpenScience Materials with brief descriptions of the tools, their previous application, and references.

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COGTEL (Cognitive Telephone Screening Instrument)

Main references: Haas et al., 2021 (eCOGTEL); Kliegel et al., 2007.

A practical and rapid tool that allows assessing cognitive functioning in a global perspective: short- and long-term memory, working memory, prospective memory, verbal fluency, inductive reasoning. It takes 20 to 30 minutes to administer and provides detailed results (overall score and scores per sub-domain).

In its most recent update, we have developed an online version — the eCOGTEL — that allows for a remote, self-administered assessment of cognitive functioning (for details, see Haas et al., 2021).

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Geneva Space Cruiser

Main reference: Zuber et al., 2021.

The Geneva Space Cruiser represents a new online adaptation of the serious-game like task that allows assessing participants' prospective memory, that is, their ability to remember to perform planned intentions after delay. It takes 10 to 15 minutes to administer and provides detailed results on participants' prospective memory performance, time-monitoring behavior, and ongoing task performance.

With its latest adaptions, the Geneva Space Cruiser can be used for fully self-administered, remote assessment that does not require any direct (on- or offline) assistance from researchers.

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Laboratory paradigms to assess prospective memory

N-back time-based prospective memory task

This task was designed to assess time-based prospective memory in a laboratory setting using E-Prime2® (or later versions). The prospective memory task is embedded in a 2-back working memory task (i.e., ongoing task) for which participants have to indicate on each trial whether the current picture corresponds to the picture presented two trials earlier. The full paradigm consists of two blocks: a block of ‘ongoing task only’ followed by a block ‘ongoing plus prospective memory task’.

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