Go/No-Go Zoo Game

The Zoo Game is a child-friendly go/no-go task that we developed to measure behavior and ERPs associated with cognitive control processes. This task, based on work originally done by McDermott and colleagues, is suitable for use with children between 3-8 years of age. It is being used by researchers to examine the associations between cognitive control and children's anxiety, motivation, academic skills, and obseisty in early childhood.

If you are interested in using this measure in your research, please contact Jennie Grammer at grammer @ ucla.edu.

Original paper describing the task:

Grammer, J. K., Carrasco, M., Gehring, W. J., & Morrison, F. J. (2014). Age-related changes in error processing in young children: A school-based investigation. Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 9, 93-105.

For more information on the measure, check out some of these articles:

Grammer, J. K., Gehring, W. J., & Morrison, F. J. (2018). Associations between developmental changes in error‐related brain activity and executive functions in early childhood. Psychophysiology, 55(3), e13040.
Kim, M. H., Grammer, J. K., Marulis, L. M., Carrasco, M., Morrison, F. J., & Gehring, W. J. (2016). Early math and reading achievement are associated with the error positivity. Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 22, 18-26.
Kim, M. H., Marulis, L. M., Grammer, J. K., Morrison, F. J., & Gehring, W. J. (2017). Motivational processes from expectancy–value theory are associated with variability in the error positivity in young children. Journal of experimental child psychology, 155, 32-47. Chicago.
Kim, S. H., Grammer, J., Benrey, N., Morrison, F., & Lord, C. (2017). Stimulus processing and error monitoring in more‐able kindergarteners with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): A short review and a preliminary ERP study. European Journal of Neuroscience.
Danovitch, J. H., Fisher, M., Schroder, H., Hambrick, D. Z., & Moser, J. (2017). Intelligence and Neurophysiological Markers of Error Monitoring Relate to Children's Intellectual Humility. Child Development.
Lo, S. L., Schroder, H. S., Fisher, M. E., Durbin, C. E., Fitzgerald, K. D., Danovitch, J. H., & Moser, J. S. (2017). Associations between disorder-specific symptoms of anxiety and error-monitoring brain activity in young children. Journal of abnormal child psychology, 45(7), 1439-1448.
Schroder, H. S., Fisher, M. E., Lin, Y., Lo, S. L., Danovitch, J. H., & Moser, J. S. (2017). Neural evidence for enhanced attention to mistakes among school-aged children with a growth mindset. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 24, 42-50.