FOCUSSelf-check
What shape
is your focus?
Self-check
- Free
- About 20 min
- 12 items
- No sign-up
A questionnaire on how you see your own focus, with things that help. A self-check for looking at how you are doing now, not a diagnosis.
What you will discover
What this report
tells you
A report in 5 chapters. Every interpretation shows the scores it rests on.
- 01
At a glance
Your focus on one page
- 02
How you see your own focus
Questionnaire scores and which way your answers leaned
- 03
What tends to help focus
Changes worth trying in your setting and habits
- 04
When to talk to a professional
When to talk, and what to bring
- 05
Method and limits
What it was measured with, and how far to trust it
In your report
- Your own view of your focus
- Attention task record
- Stop task record
- Method and limits in full
How it works
What to expect
You can stop at any point and pick up where you left off.
How you usually are
12 items, one per screen. Choose one of 5 answers for each.
Attention taskOptional
Numbers appear one at a time; tap straight away for every number except one. Find a few undisturbed minutes for it.
Stop taskOptional
Press the side each arrow points to, and hold back when a stop signal appears. Find a few undisturbed minutes for it.
Get your report
Your report is built as soon as you finish, and is saved on this device only.
Sources
Based on
Where the items and scoring come from, with the licence and translation notes for each.
IPIP 12-item scale (after Span et al., 2002)
International Personality Item Pool: A Scientific Collaboratory for the Development of Advanced Measures of Personality Traits and Other Individual Differences (http://ipip.ori.org/). Internet Web Site. Scale listed on the IPIP single-construct key as "ADHD (Span et al., 2002)": 12 items, all positively keyed, Cronbach's alpha = .78 as reported by IPIP. It is the IPIP analogue of the measure in Span, S. A., Earleywine, M., & Strybel, T. Z. (2002). Confirming the factor structure of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms in adult, nonclinical samples. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 24(2), 129-136. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015396926356. See also Goldberg, L. R., Johnson, J. A., Eber, H. W., Hogan, R., Ashton, M. C., Cloninger, C. R., & Gough, H. G. (2006). The International Personality Item Pool and the future of public-domain personality measures. Journal of Research in Personality, 40(1), 84-96. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2005.08.007
- Licence
- Public domain. "Because the IPIP has been placed in the public domain, permission has already been automatically granted for any person to use IPIP items, scales, and inventories for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial." (https://ipip.ori.org/newPermission.htm)
- Translation
- The Korean wording of the statements and response options is an in-house translation by Human.ai that has not been separately validated.
Attention task: SART format
Robertson, I. H., Manly, T., Andrade, J., Baddeley, B. T., & Yiend, J. (1997). 'Oops!': Performance correlates of everyday attentional failures in traumatic brain injured and normal subjects. Neuropsychologia, 35(6), 747-758. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00015-8
- Licence
- Research paradigm implemented independently. "No licence. The paradigm is described in the academic literature. We write our own code, instructions and stimuli." (Human.ai research brief on the cognitive tasks, A.2). No third-party code, stimuli or norms are used.
Stop task: stop-signal consensus guide
Verbruggen, F., Aron, A. R., Band, G. P. H., Beste, C., Bissett, P. G., Brockett, A. T., Brown, J. W., Chamberlain, S. R., Chambers, C. D., Colonius, H., Colzato, L. S., Corneil, B. D., Coxon, J. P., Dupuis, A., Eagle, D. M., Garavan, H., Greenhouse, I., Heathcote, A., Huster, R. J., . . . Boehler, C. N. (2019). A consensus guide to capturing the ability to inhibit actions and impulsive behaviors in the stop-signal task. eLife, 8, e46323. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.46323
- Licence
- Clean-room implementation of the published procedure. "Parameters and procedures described in a scientific paper are not protected; implement from the paper and this document (clean room)." (Human.ai research brief on the cognitive tasks, B.2). No code or image from any reference implementation is used.
Fan et al. 2018
Fan, J., Gan, J., Liu, W., Zhong, M., Liao, H., Zhang, H., Yi, J., Chan, R. C. K., Tan, C., & Zhu, X. (2018). Resting-state default mode network related functional connectivity is associated with sustained attention deficits in schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 12, 319. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnbeh.2018.00319 (Figures used: the healthy comparison group, N = 36.)
- Licence
- Cited as the source of published figures shown for context. Nothing from the article is reproduced.
Dang et al. 2018
Dang, J. S., Figueroa, I. J., & Helton, W. S. (2018). You are measuring the decision to be fast, not inattention: the Sustained Attention to Response Task does not measure sustained attention. Experimental Brain Research, 236(8), 2255-2262. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-018-5291-6
- Licence
- Cited as the source of published figures shown for context. Nothing from the article is reproduced.
Congdon et al. 2012
Congdon, E., Mumford, J. A., Cohen, J. R., Galvan, A., Canli, T., & Poldrack, R. A. (2012). Measurement and reliability of response inhibition. Frontiers in Psychology, 3, 37. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00037
- Licence
- Cited as the source of published figures shown for context. Nothing from the article is reproduced.
Smittenaar et al. 2015
Smittenaar, P., Rutledge, R. B., Zeidman, P., Adams, R. A., Brown, H., Lewis, G., & Dolan, R. J. (2015). Proactive and reactive response inhibition across the lifespan. PLOS ONE, 10(10), e0140383. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0140383
- Licence
- Cited as the source of published figures shown for context. Nothing from the article is reproduced.
Hedge et al. 2018
Hedge, C., Powell, G., & Sumner, P. (2018). The reliability paradox: Why robust cognitive tasks do not produce reliable individual differences. Behavior Research Methods, 50(3), 1166-1186. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-017-0935-1
- Licence
- Cited as the source of published figures shown for context. Nothing from the article is reproduced.
Poulton et al. 2022
Poulton, A., Chen, L. P. E., Dali, G., Fox, M., & Hester, R. (2022). Web-based independent versus laboratory-based stop-signal task performance: Within-subjects counterbalanced comparison study. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(5), e32922. https://doi.org/10.2196/32922
- Licence
- Cited as the source of published figures shown for context. Nothing from the article is reproduced.
Nicosia et al. 2023
Nicosia, J., Wang, B., Aschenbrenner, A. J., Sliwinski, M. J., Yabiku, S. T., Roque, N. A., Germine, L. T., Bateman, R. J., Morris, J. C., & Hassenstab, J. (2023). To BYOD or not: Are device latencies important for bring-your-own-device (BYOD) smartphone cognitive testing? Behavior Research Methods, 55(6), 2800-2812. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-022-01925-1
- Licence
- Cited as the source of published figures shown for context. Nothing from the article is reproduced.
Arrondo et al. 2024
Arrondo, G., Mulraney, M., Iturmendi-Sabater, I., Musullulu, H., Gambra, L., Niculcea, T., Banaschewski, T., Simonoff, E., Döpfner, M., Hinshaw, S. P., Coghill, D., & Cortese, S. (2024). Systematic review and meta-analysis: Clinical utility of continuous performance tests for the identification of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 63(2), 154-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2023.03.011
- Licence
- Cited as a source of the research statement in the notice shown with every task result: that tasks of this kind are not accurate, on their own, at telling people with an attention-related condition from people without one. Nothing from the article is reproduced. What it covers: 19 studies of commercial attention tasks in children and adolescents, not adults and not the task in this report.
Senkowski et al. 2024
Senkowski, D., Ziegler, T., Singh, M., Heinz, A., He, J., Silk, T., & Lorenz, R. C. (2024). Assessing inhibitory control deficits in adult ADHD: A systematic review and meta-analysis of the stop-signal task. Neuropsychology Review, 34(2), 548-567. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11065-023-09592-5
- Licence
- Cited as a source of the research statement in the notice shown with every task result: that tasks of this kind are not accurate, on their own, at telling people with an attention-related condition from people without one. Nothing from the article is reproduced. What it covers: 27 studies of the stop task in adults (group difference in stopping time, Hedges' g = 0.51).
Good to know
Human.ai is for adults aged 19 and over. The first time you start, we ask for your date of birth once. The date is not stored.
This report is made on this device alone and does not use AI. None of your answers, task records or scores leave the device.
A self-check is reference material for looking at how you are doing now. Whatever the report says, if you are struggling right now, please reach out for help straight away.
See where to get help
- This service is not a medical device and cannot determine whether you have a disease; that takes an examination by a doctor. This report is reference information for self-understanding and does not replace medical diagnosis, treatment or prescription.
- The statements are for looking at your own everyday tendencies. They are not a clinical instrument and cannot tell whether you have a disease.
- The tasks are not a medical test and do not determine whether you have a disease. They give a snapshot of how you sustained attention and controlled responses just now, on this device. Results can change with sleep, caffeine, medication, noise and the device you use.
- This report is reference material for self-understanding. Do not use it as the basis for important decisions such as hiring, admissions or legal judgments.
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