May I have your attention test, please? The ANTI-Vea task was featured at the Psychonomic Society web page:
“Attention is a key part of cognition, and, therefore, it plays an important role across almost any context you can imagine. It’s critical for behaviors as diverse as air traffic control and keeping track of predators and influences outcomes with high relevance (such as academic performance). It is also sensitive to many factors such as caffeine intake, physical activity, emotional significance, and many others. And our coverage of attention-related research on the featured content site of the Psychonomic Society is quite popular. With so many experimental manipulations and applied contexts where attention is a key variable, an easy to implement and reliable test that can be deployed in online environments is a very handy tool. Even more so in COVID-19 times, as the need of finding creative ways to continue research despite restrictions for in-person studies has proved invaluable. Fernando Luna, Javier Roca, Elisa Martín-Arévalo, and Juan Lupiáñez report on the reliability of assessing attention and vigilance in the lab and online in their recent paper entitled, “Measuring attention and vigilance in the laboratory vs. online: The split-half reliability of the ANTI-Vea,” published in Behavior & Research Methods”.