54 research tasks · 8 cognitive domains · custom tests on request · free to start · no hardware, no downloads, no $30,000 license.
Researchers and students at more than 30 universities have signed up, including
Start from a starter template or hand-pick tasks in the study wizard. Every task comes with its instructions and automatic scoring.
How quickly people take in information and respond.
Keeping attention on a task and picking out what matters.
Holding and updating information for a few seconds.
Planning, switching rules, handling conflict and making decisions.
Learning material and later recalling or recognizing it.
Stopping or holding back a response.
Reading and responding to social information.
Recognizing words and using what they mean.
Every task uses a public-domain paradigm with automated scoring and clean exports. Open any task for the full method, measures, and references.
Templates in the study wizard. Start from one and edit it.
Executive Control Battery · 4 tasks selected
Participants take part remotely or on site, in English or Italian. A device check runs before the first test.
Give each participant a private link, or run sessions on site. Participants need Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari. Timed tests need a desktop or laptop with a mouse or trackpad. 18 untimed tests also run on tablets, and 16 of them on phones.
Every response is saved as it happens. A returning participant continues from the next unfinished test; a test that was interrupted starts again.
Participant pages run in English or Italian. Some tests still show English task text, so preview an Italian study before you launch.
Participants join only through study links or IDs the researcher issues. Researcher sign-up and contact forms are protected against bots and spam.
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Respond to the centre arrow
Automatic invalid-session detection and versioned scoring turn raw responses into data you can defend in peer review. This is exactly what a DIY jsPsych build leaves you to engineer yourself.
Example study
Example data: 4 of 7 shown are valid. Invalid sessions keep their reason in results and exports and get no percentile.
Example: P-1042, task switching, ages 60 to 69, Eich et al. (2023) norm
Quality-gated interpretation. Percentiles render only for sessions that pass validity checks — so norms are never computed on data you'd throw out.
What it takes to defend your data
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ConductCognition
Scoring is automatic and versioned. Every plan exports score CSVs and two-timepoint comparisons. Academic Research and above add trial-level CSVs.
| participant_id | test_slug | meanRT | medianRT | interpretation_state | is_valid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P-1042 | srt | 224 | 235 | valid_norm | true |
| P-1043 | srt | 241 | 252 | invalid_behavioral | false |
| P-1044 | srt | 258 | 269 | valid_norm | true |
| P-1045 | srt | 275 | 286 | valid_norm | true |
Run a real test in 30 seconds
A live 10-trial Simple Reaction Time task, running in your browser right now. No sign-up — then see exactly the result a researcher gets.
A quick 10-trial test. Press space or click as fast as you can when the circle appears.
Example participant, ages 60 to 69, against the Eich et al. (2023) norm: switch cost mean 165 ms, SD 114
3 of 214 sessions marked invalid, each with its reason.
One platform, three audiences
From a solo pilot to an institution-wide rollout — the same trustworthy data pipeline scales with you.
Solo researcher · grad student
Create a study, pick a starter battery, share participant links, and export clean CSVs for feasibility work — free, fast, no friction.
The legacy tax
Hardware required · weeks to set up · enterprise sales only.
Free research tier, pay as you go at $0.99 per participant, or Academic Research by card · no hardware · start in minutes.
$0
10 free participants, then $0.99 each
$249 / year
$0.83 per included participant
$1,999 / year
$0.67 per included participant
$6,499 / year
No charge per participant
$0.99 per participant
Every account gets 10 free participants. After that, each participant uses one credit for the whole study, however many of the 54 tests they take. Pay-as-you-go studies include scores, norms where supported and trial-level export.
Minimum purchase: 25 credits ($24.75).
Academic credits are for academic and nonprofit research. You confirm this before paying.
Every plan includes automated scoring, the Study Quality Monitor, score CSV and the two-study comparison CSV. Paid plans and pay-as-you-go studies add norms where supported, trial-level CSV and Clock Drawing JSON.
Each link counts toward your participant limit, or uses one credit, as soon as you create it, before anyone takes part. A participant counts once for the whole study, whatever the number of tests. A participant in another study or timepoint counts again.
Every plan signs in with an email link or a ConductScience account.
How we compare
Focused on academic and commercial research workflows, not clinical diagnosis or regulated-clinical claims.
| ConductCognition | Legacy clinical suite | Cloud cognitive vendor | Generalist test runner | DIY open-source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Academic price | Free, $0.99 per participant, or $249/yr | Contact sales | Contact sales | Varies by license | Free |
| Tests included | 54 tasks; custom tests on request | 25+ | 6–8 | Build your own | Build your own |
| Hosting | Cloud (managed) | Cloud + hardware | Cloud | Self / cloud | Self-host |
| Scoring | Automated | Automated | Automated | Manual | Manual |
| Setup time | Minutes | Weeks | Weeks | Hours | Days–weeks |
| Normative data | Where supported | Built-in | Built-in | None | None |
| Data-quality monitoring | Limited | ||||
| Longitudinal support | Two-timepoint export | Limited | Limited |
Pricing and feature data based on publicly available information as of 2026. Subject to change.
US clinical research
The application server and its database run in Microsoft Azure's East US 2 region. Run clinical and neuropsychological tests with private participant links and HIPAA-ready workflows.
View US clinical researchThe application server and the study database run in this US region.
Trail making, symbol coding, verbal learning, story recall, fluency, clock drawing, paired associates and more.
Participants have no accounts. The time each participant consents is saved.
BAA review for hospitals, clinics and academic medical centers.
Security & trust
Built on the most widely used research-grade testing engine for behavioral experiments. Thousands of publications.
Research institutions use ConductScience products — universities, pharma, government, hospitals.
Every paradigm is a public-domain cognitive test — no per-seat royalties, no vendor lock-in, none of the $30k legacy license tax.
Privacy-sensitive studies run on a HIPAA-ready architecture with private participant access and review-ready documentation.
Institution and Enterprise / CRO customers can request a Data Processing Agreement and a security review for procurement.
Researchers sign in with their ConductScience account through OpenID Connect, or with a sign-in link sent by email.
Research use only
ConductCognition is designed for research workflows and screening support. It is not a diagnostic device and is not FDA-cleared or 21 CFR Part 11 compliant.
Talk to a scientist
Our support team is scientists, not just techs. Bring your study and we'll help you choose the right tasks, plan your norms, and set up data-quality monitoring — before you spend a participant credit.
Louise helps research teams choose the right cognitive battery, plan normative comparisons, and set up data-quality checks before they collect a single participant.
Design, collect, trust, and export — on data you can defend in peer review. Free to start, in minutes.