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Enhancing SART Validity by Statistically Controlling Speed-Accuracy Trade-Offs.

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Seli, P; Jonker, TR; Cheyne, JA; Smilek, D
Published in: Frontiers in psychology
January 2013

Numerous studies focused on elucidating the correlates, causes, and consequences of inattention/attention-lapses employ the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART), a GO-NOGO task with infrequent withholds. Although the SART has become popular among inattention researchers, recent work has demonstrated its susceptibility to speed-accuracy trade-offs (SATOs), rendering its assessment of inattention problematic. Here, we propose and illustrate methods to statistically control for the occurrence of SATOs during SART performance. The statistical solutions presented here can be used to correct standard SART-error scores, including those of already-published data, thereby allowing researchers to re-examine existing data, and to more sensitively evaluate the validity of earlier conclusions.

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Frontiers in psychology

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1664-1078

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1664-1078

Publication Date

January 2013

Volume

4

Start / End Page

265

Related Subject Headings

  • 52 Psychology
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology
 

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Seli, P., Jonker, T. R., Cheyne, J. A., & Smilek, D. (2013). Enhancing SART Validity by Statistically Controlling Speed-Accuracy Trade-Offs. Frontiers in Psychology, 4, 265. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00265
Seli, Paul, Tanya R. Jonker, James Allan Cheyne, and Daniel Smilek. “Enhancing SART Validity by Statistically Controlling Speed-Accuracy Trade-Offs.Frontiers in Psychology 4 (January 2013): 265. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00265.
Seli P, Jonker TR, Cheyne JA, Smilek D. Enhancing SART Validity by Statistically Controlling Speed-Accuracy Trade-Offs. Frontiers in psychology. 2013 Jan;4:265.
Seli, Paul, et al. “Enhancing SART Validity by Statistically Controlling Speed-Accuracy Trade-Offs.Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 4, Jan. 2013, p. 265. Epmc, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00265.
Seli P, Jonker TR, Cheyne JA, Smilek D. Enhancing SART Validity by Statistically Controlling Speed-Accuracy Trade-Offs. Frontiers in psychology. 2013 Jan;4:265.

Published In

Frontiers in psychology

DOI

EISSN

1664-1078

ISSN

1664-1078

Publication Date

January 2013

Volume

4

Start / End Page

265

Related Subject Headings

  • 52 Psychology
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 1702 Cognitive Sciences
  • 1701 Psychology