An adaptive paradigm for detecting the individual duration of the preparatory period in the choice reaction time task

Orsini, Caitlin Anne, Soghoyan, Gurgen, Aksiotis, Vladislav, Rusinova, Anna, Myachykov, Andriy and Tumyalis, Alexey (2022) An adaptive paradigm for detecting the individual duration of the preparatory period in the choice reaction time task. PLoS ONE, 17 (9). e0273234. ISSN 1932-6203

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Abstract

According to the sequential stage model, the selection and the execution of a motor response are two distinct independent processes. Here, we propose a new adaptive paradigm for identifying the individual duration of the response preparatory period based on the motor reaction time (RT) data. The results are compared using the paradigm with constant values of the preparatory period. Two groups of participants performed on either an easy (Group 1) or a hard (Group 2) response selection task with two types of stimuli based on the preparatory period parameters: (1) stimuli with a constant preparatory period duration of 0 or 1200 ms and (2) stimuli with adaptive preparatory period durations. Our analysis showed an increase in the duration of the response selection process as a function of increasing task complexity when using both paradigms with constant and adaptive values of the preparatory period duration. We conclude that the adaptive paradigm proposed in the current paper has several important advantages over the constant paradigm in terms of measuring the response accuracy while being equally efficiently in capturing other critical response parameters.

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