A unified online test battery for cognitive impulsivity reveals relationships with real-world impulsive behaviours

Verdejo-García, Antonio; Tiego, Jeggan; Kakoschke, Naomi; Moskovsky, Neda; Voigt, Katharina; Anderson, Alexandra C.; Koutoulogenis, Julia; Lubman, Dan I.; Bellgrove, Mark A.

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“…Research with “hot” executive-function tasks (those that use emotional stimuli or include rewards; Zelazo & Carlson, 2012) provides a way to examine this possibility. A recent study implementing inhibition tasks in a gaming framework (Verdejo-Garcia et al, 2021) found somewhat larger associations between impulsivity ratings and cognitive measures ( r s = .2–.3), compared with prior work, possibly because the researchers adjusted for reliability and added motivational (emotional) aspects to the cognitive tasks. However, studies have not yet examined associations between latent variables for hot executive-function tasks, standard (“cool”) executive-function tasks, and rating measures.…”

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Do Rating and Task Measures of Control Abilities Assess the Same Thing?

Friedman

Gustavson

2022

Curr Dir Psychol Sci

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The ability to control one’s thoughts and actions is broadly associated with health and success, so it is unsurprising that measuring self-control abilities is a common goal across many areas of psychology. Puzzlingly, however, different measures of control––questionnaire ratings and cognitive tasks––show only weak relationships to each other. We review evidence that this discrepancy is not just a result of poor reliability or validity of ratings or tasks. Rather, ratings and tasks seem to assess different aspects of control, distinguishable along six main dimensions. To improve the psychological science surrounding self-control, it will be important for future work to investigate the relative importance of these dimensions to the dissociations between self-control measures, and for researchers to explain which aspects of control they are studying and why they have focused on those aspects of control when one or both types of measures are deployed.

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Do Rating and Task Measures of Control Abilities Assess the Same Thing?

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Gustavson

2022

Curr Dir Psychol Sci

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“…The CIS measures three cognitive mechanisms of disinhibition (i.e., attentional control, information gathering, and feedback monitoring/shifting) within a unified, gamified suite of tasks [16]. The three CIS tasks (Figure 1) have optimal test-retest reliability and criterion validity [16]. The tasks have equalised perceptual characteristics and response modalities (i.e., two-choice response options), and thus performance differences can be ascribed to the specific mechanisms of interest.…”

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“…The lack of comprehensive measures that are sensitive and specific in measuring these separate cognitive processes, and are repeatable and valid [14,15], has also likely influenced the inconsistent results of studies comparing impulsivity across hunger and sated states [11]. We recently developed a novel framework and a comprehensive, gamified measure (the Cognitive Impulsivity Suite or CIS) to assess the cognitive underpinnings of disinhibition, namely, attentional control, information gathering and feedback monitoring [16]. The CIS has the advantage of measuring separate cognitive processes via different tasks with equal perceptual and motor demands, which increases the measure's test-retest reliability and validity.…”

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“…The CIS has the advantage of measuring separate cognitive processes via different tasks with equal perceptual and motor demands, which increases the measure's test-retest reliability and validity. In particular, CIS tasks show significant associations with both trait and behavioural measures of impulsivity [16]. In this study, we administered the CIS in healthy participants across hunger and satiety states together with assays of circulating levels of insulin, leptin, and liver-expressed antimicrobial peptide 2 (LEAP-2), which is an antagonist of ghrelin action that is elevated by calorie consumption signaling satiety [17].…”

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The Hunger Games: Homeostatic State-Dependent Fluctuations in Disinhibition Measured with a Novel Gamified Test Battery

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Food homeostatic states (hunger and satiety) influence the cognitive systems regulating impulsive responses, but the direction and specific mechanisms involved in this effect remain elusive. We examined how fasting, and satiety, affect cognitive mechanisms underpinning disinhibition using a novel framework and a gamified test-battery. Thirty-four participants completed the test-battery measuring three cognitive facets of disinhibition: attentional control, information gathering and monitoring of feedback, across two experimental sessions: one after overnight fasting and another after a standardised meal. Homeostatic state was assessed using subjective self-reports and biological markers (i.e., blood-derived liver-expressed antimicrobial protein 2 (LEAP-2), insulin and leptin). We found that participants who experienced greater subjective hunger during the satiety session were more impulsive in the information gathering task; results were not confounded by changes in mood or anxiety. Homeostatic state did not significantly influence disinhibition mechanisms linked to attentional control or feedback monitoring. However, we found a significant interaction between homeostatic state and LEAP-2 on attentional control, with higher LEAP-2 associated with faster reaction times in the fasted condition only. Our findings indicate lingering hunger after eating increases impulsive behaviour via reduced information gathering. These findings identify a novel mechanism that may underpin the tendency to overeat and/or engage in broader impulsive behaviours.

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Searching for biomarkers in the fluidity of mental ill‐health

Verdejo‐García

2023

World Psychiatry

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A unified online test battery for cognitive impulsivity reveals relationships with real-world impulsive behaviours

Cited by 29 publications

References 71 publications

Do Rating and Task Measures of Control Abilities Assess the Same Thing?

Do Rating and Task Measures of Control Abilities Assess the Same Thing?

The Hunger Games: Homeostatic State-Dependent Fluctuations in Disinhibition Measured with a Novel Gamified Test Battery

Searching for biomarkers in the fluidity of mental ill‐health

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