Visit Details

Screening

Individuals between the ages of 6 and 44 were invited to participate in a study investigating domain-general cognitive processes, such as attention, working memory, perception, processing speed and decision-making. The participants were recruited from both the Child Mind Medical Practice patient population, as well as the wider New York City-area community. Both typically developing and clinically diagnosed individuals are included in this sample.

Potential participants (or their parents, if they were under 18 years of age) were screened over the telephone, or in person at the Child Mind Institute, by a trained research assistant. The 10-minute screening assessed participants’ eligibility and safety to participate, obtaining information on:

• History of psychiatric illness, including past and present treatments, medications, and diagnoses.
• History of neurological disorders and/or epilepsy.

If participants reported no contraindications to EEG, they were scheduled for an in-laboratory visit at the Child Mind Institute in New York, NY.

Participant Schedule

The full task battery was five hours in duration. Participants were permitted to split their visit into two shorter sessions, lasting 3 hours (EEG recording and eye-tracking portion) and 2 hours (cognitive and behavioral assessment portion), respectively. A sample full-visit schedule is provided below.

See here for current sample characteristics.