3.9 Article

Honeycomb: a template for reproducible psychophysio-logical tasks for clinic, laboratory, and home use

Journal

BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY
Volume 44, Issue 2, Pages 147-155

Publisher

ASSOC BRASILEIRA PSIQUIATRIA
DOI: 10.1590/1516-4446-2020-1675

Keywords

Neuropsychology; psychophysiology; electrophysiology; task performance and analysis

Categories

Funding

  1. National Institutes of Health - National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NIH-NINDS) BRAIN Initiative [UH3N S100549]
  2. Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Fellowship
  3. Karen T. Romer Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award
  4. NIMH [R01 MH084840]

Ask authors/readers for more resources

This study aims to improve the ability of psychiatry researchers to build, deploy, maintain, reproduce, and share their own psychophysiological tasks. The study introduces a task creation template called Honeycomb, which standardizes best practices for building tasks using jsPsych. Additionally, a public library named BeeHive has been curated, providing ready-to-use tasks.
Objective: To improve the ability of psychiatry researchers to build, deploy, maintain, reproduce, and share their own psychophysiological tasks. Psychophysiological tasks are a useful tool for studying human behavior driven by mental processes such as cognitive control, reward evaluation, and learning. Neural mechanisms during behavioral tasks are often studied via simultaneous electrophysiological recordings. Popular online platforms such as Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) and Prolific enable deployment of tasks to numerous participants simultaneously. However, there is currently no task-creation framework available for flexibly deploying tasks both online and during Methods: We developed a task creation template, termed Honeycomb, that standardizes best practices for building jsPsych-based tasks. Honeycomb offers continuous deployment configurations for seamless transition between use in research settings and at home. Further, we have curated a public library, termed BeeHive, of ready-to-use tasks. Results: We demonstrate the benefits of using Honeycomb tasks with a participant in an ongoing study of deep brain stimulation for obsessive compulsive disorder, who completed repeated tasks both in the clinic and at home. Conclusion: Honeycomb enables researchers to deploy tasks online, in clinic, and at home in more ecologically valid environments and during concurrent electrophysiology.

Authors

I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.

Reviews

Primary Rating

3.9
Not enough ratings

Secondary Ratings

Novelty
-
Significance
-
Scientific rigor
-
Rate this paper

Recommended

No Data Available
No Data Available