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measure Columbia Card Task (CCT)
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Main Cohort 9-10 yearsThe Columbia Card Task (CCT) is a psychological test that measures cognitive functions related to executive functioning, such as planning, set shifting, decision-making, and inhibitory control. During the CCT, participants are presented with a deck of cards and are required to sort the cards based on different categories, with the rules for sorting...Created May 3, 2023 • Updated May 3, 2023 -
measure Cyberball Task
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Main Cohort 9-10 yearsThe Cyberball task is a computerized game used to study the effects of social exclusion on individuals. Participants play a virtual ball-tossing game with other players, who are actually controlled by the computer. The participant is sometimes excluded from the game. Following the game, children were also asked to fill out a questionnaire with 15...Created May 3, 2023 • Updated May 3, 2023 -
measure Nonword repetition task (NWR) - shortened
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Main Cohort 9-10 yearsA simplified version of the Dutch nonword repetition task (NWR; Rispens & Baker, 2012). The NWR was shortened and scoring was transformed to correct/incorrect nonwords, resulting in the shortened NWR (NWR-S).Created May 3, 2023 • Updated May 3, 2023 -
measure Finger tapping task
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Main Cohort 9-10 yearsMotor control, speed and lateralized coordination were measured using a computerized Finger Tapping task. For the task, children had to tap switching between their right, left, or both index fingers as quickly as possible for 10 seconds. A total of five trials were measured, starting with a visual and an auditory queue. The total number of finger taps per...Created May 3, 2023 • Updated May 3, 2023 -
measure Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET)
Study: Generation R Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Main Cohort 9-10 yearsThe Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) assesses the ability to recognize complex mental states as expressed by human eyes. Participants pick one of four options (e.g. puzzled, nervous, insisting or contemplative) which they think best describes what the person in each photograph is thinking or feeling.Created May 3, 2023 • Updated May 3, 2023 -
measure Simon task
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YE_ATTEF2The Simon task is a selective attention task. In the computerized version of a visual spatial Simon task subjects have to respond to the colour of a stimulus. On the screen a red circle or a green circle appears. In case of a red circle children have to push the right button, in case of a green circle children have to push the left button. By manipulating...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Amsterdam Neuropsychological Tasks (ANT)
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YE_ATTEF1 YE_ATTEF2The Amsterdam Neuropsychological Tasks (ANT) are computerized executive functioning tasks. The ANTs measure a diverse range of executive functions, including attention, working memory, and inhibition.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC)
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_ATTEF2 YE_COG12 YE_COG18The Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC) is an IQ test for children of 6-17 years of age to determine general intelligence. It generates a full scale IQ (formerly known as an intelligence quotient or IQ score) that represents a child's general intellectual ability. The most common primary index scores are the Verbal Comprehension Index, the...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Raven's Progressive Matrices Test (RPM)
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_ATTEF3Raven's Progressive Matrices (often referred to simply as Raven's Matrices or RPM) is a non-verbal test used to measure general intelligence and abstract reasoning. It is one of the most common tests administered to both groups and individuals ranging from 5-years-olds to the elderly. It consists of 60 multiple choice questions, listed in order of...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Pi Inspection Time Task
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_COG18In the inspection time (IT) paradigm, participants view two lines of unequal length (called the Pi-figure) for a short exposure time, and then judge which of the two lines was longer.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Eriksen flanker task
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YE_ATTEF2 YC_ADHMRIThe Eriksen flanker task is a response inhibition test used to assess the ability to suppress responses that are inappropriate in a particular context.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure CITO score
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_TRF5 YS_TRF7 YS_TRF10 YS_12 YS_TRF12 YS_DHBQP YS_DHBQ14 YS_DHBQ16 YS_DHBQ18 YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_ATTEF2 YS_CITO YS_DT YS_TRIP12The CITO-test is a standardized test for educational achievement that is administered in the final grade (when children are 11 or 12 years old) of elementary school. The CITO-test consists of multiple choice items in 4 different educational skills, namely Arithmetic, Language, Study Skills, and Science and Social Studies. All scores on the scales are...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Verbal Fluency Test
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS2 YE_COG18The Verbal Fluency Test assesses how many words that belong to the same predetermined category participants can produce in a given time (usually 60 seconds). This category can be semantic, specified objects such as animals or fruits, or phonological, words beginning with a specified letter such as p.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Rey’s Verbal Learning Test
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2The Rey’s Auditory Verbal Learning Task (AVLT) is a task which measures short and long term verbal memory. A list of 15 unrelated, concrete nouns is presented with a 1 second interval on an audio CD over five learning trials. After each presentation, participants have to name as many of the presented words as possible. Next, after a delay interval of...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure One Minute Reading Task
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_7 YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YC_BS3One subtest of the ‘one minute reading test’ was administered as a measure of technical reading performance, or oral reading fluency. It measures the accuracy and speed of decoding. Children were instructed to read out loud as many words as possible in 1 min without making errors from a card containing 120 unrelated words.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure N-back task
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_COG18Spatial variant of the n-back task to assess visuospatial working memory.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Corsi block-tapping task
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YC_BS3 YE_COG18The Corsi block tapping task assesses short-term spatial memory.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Stroop colour-word task
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YE_ATTEF2 YC_ADHMRI YE_COG18Pairs of conflicting stimuli, both being inherent aspects of the same symbols, were presented simultaneously (a name of one color printed in the ink of another color—a word stimulus and a color stimulus). The difference in time for reading the words printed in colors and the same words printed in black is the measure of the interference of color stimuli...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Box marking test
Study: NTR Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS2 YE_COG18Degree of handedness was measured by assessing hand skill by the number of boxes the participant could tick on a printed sheet in one minute. Each hand was tested separately, the right hand being tested first. A ratio between both hands was determined, by subtracting the right-hand score from the left-hand score, divided by the sum of both scores.Created March 28, 2023 • Updated April 4, 2023 -
measure Peabody Picture Vocabulary Task (PPVT)
Study: YOUth Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Baby and Child 3 years 6 years
Child and Adolescent 9 years 12 yearsThe Peabody-Picture vocabulary task (PPVT (Dunn and Dunn, 1981); for Dutch, the PPVT-III-NL (Dunn and Dunn, 2005)) is a widely used computer task to evaluate a participant’s vocabulary size for his or her age, and serves as a proxy of general language performance. It is normed for participants up to 90 years of age. Participants see on each trial an array...Created March 28, 2023 • Updated March 30, 2023