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The California Computerized Assessment Package (CalCAP; 1999) presents a series of brief reaction time tasks designed to assess speeded information processing and psychomotor functioning. The standard CalCAP consists of four Simple and six Go-No Go reaction time subtests that require 20–25 min to complete. The individual reaction time measures were designed to assess a number of cognitive domains, including speed of processing (reaction time), lexical discrimination (real word vs. nonsense word), rapid visual scanning, form discrimination and matching, working memory (1-back and 2-back tasks), and sustained and divided attention. Each task includes a practice session that must be completed with 100% accuracy to proceed to the main 2-min procedure, a method that ensures that subjects understand the task instructions and that minimizes practice effects in longitudinal study designs. Subjects are asked to focus on a display field and respond only to specific...
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Miller, E.N. (2018). California Computerized Assessment Package. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_1272
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