Step 1: The experiment design, what is required?

The Iowa Gambling Test™ is a computer-administered task in which the participant selects cards one at a time from four decks. Participants are instructed that each card selected will result in winning money, with some cards also taking money away. The goal of the task is to accumulate as much money as possible. The Iowa Gambling Task (IGT) has been used exten-sively in clinical and research studies, and it has been shown to be a highly sensitive measure of impaired deci-sion making in a variety of neurological and psychiatric conditions Bechara, 2004; Brand et al., 2007. Neurological patients with damage to the mesial orbitofrontal/ventro. The Iowa Gambling Task (IGT; Bechara et al., 1994) was designed to assess decision-making abilities in VMPFC patients under such conditions of complexity and uncertainty. Participants are instructed to maximize winnings while choosing repeatedly from four decks of.

Iowa Gambling Task, what is required?

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We will need two images, one of the back of a card and the other a slightly darker version to indicate that the card has been selected.

Instructions on screen? For this tutorial yes.

How many presentations of the stimuli are there? In this tutorial we are just going to run through the it 10 times ..

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How many stimuli are there? Each presentation is made up of four cards.

What is the participant required to do, how do they interact with the task? They have to press 1,2,3,or 4 to select the required deck

Do we want to provide feedback? Yes, they will need to see how much they have won or lost, and the selected deck is indicated. So to make it simple we will use four feedbacks.

What data do we want to save? What deck was selected, wins and losses.

End screen? Yes, just to say thank you

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Anything else. Need to keep a running total of wins and losses, so will have to use an inline script to define variables and another to calculate running totals.

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