An engaging, interactive mobile cognitive assessment tool that evaluates multiple dimensions of cognitive control quickly and without ceiling or floor effects.

Adaptive Cognitive Evaluation, ACE, is a mobile cognitive control assessment battery inspired by decades of scientific research and Neuroscape experience measuring cognition in diverse populations. The tasks in ACE are standard tests that assess different aspects of cognitive control (attention, working memory, and goal management), modified by incorporating adaptive algorithms, immersive graphics, video tutorials, motivating feedback, and a user-friendly interface.

The adaptive algorithms allow each task to be completed in approximately 5 minutes and ensure that comparisons between individuals of different ages, genders, races, or cultures reflect actual differences in their cognitive ability and not disparities in the testing parameters or ceiling/floor effects. ACE can also be retaken any number of times to benchmark and track an individual’s changing cognitive control abilities over time.

We plan to make ACE freely available to researchers, clinicians, educators, and the public worldwide with the goal of creating a large normative database that is shared openly.