Semantic Decision (Animals)/Tone Decision (Pediatric Version)
PI Name: Jennifer Vannest Jennifer.Vannest@cchmc.org
Areas: Left Inf. Fron Gyrus and Left Sup. Temp. Gyrus
Program: DirectRT
Durations: 9 min. 40 sec. (two repeated 4 min. 50 sec. scans)
Special Equipment: Headphones, Visual presentation system
Description: Block paradigm contrasting a semantic decision about auditorily presented animal names (“does the animal have four legs?”), with a control task of a decision about the presence of two high tones in a tone sequence. Similar to the adult version of the task used by Binder, Szaflarski and others.