Mobile Toolbox

Up to $4,000 for grad students, postdocs and early career researchers with a project using Mobile Toolbox. Rolling review, no deadline, fast enough to fit a dissertation timeline. #EarlyCareerResearchers #ResearchFunding #DigitalHealth [email protected]

Eight Mobile Toolbox measures, one map: vocabulary, spelling, inhibitory control, set shifting, processing speed, working memory, associative memory, episodic memory. Each parallels an NIH Toolbox® test, adapted to a phone screen. The full set: mobiletoolbox.org

Test spotlight - Arranging Pictures: 14 pictures appear one at a time, then scramble. Put them back in order. They’re deliberately not a story, so there’s nothing to reason out. Then you do it again. #EpisodicMemory #RemoteAssessment #DigitalHealth mobiletoolbox.org

Remote cognitive assessment’s hard part was never the tests, it’s the enrollment, scheduling, follow-up and data plumbing. Mobile Toolbox builds that into REDCap and MyCap, so scores land in the project you already run. #REDCap #MyCap #RemoteAssessment

Test spotlight: a key pairs 1-9 with nine symbols. Tap the matching number, 90 seconds, 144 items. A hundred-year-old coding task that transfers to a phone almost unchanged. #ProcessingSpeed #RemoteAssessment #DigitalHealth Number-Symbol Match: mobiletoolbox.org

Test spotlight: Sequences flashes letters and numbers one per second, then you tap them back, letters alphabetically, numbers ascending. Grows until you miss three in a row. Working memory, on your own phone, about 5 minutes. How it works: mobiletoolbox.org

M4 Workshop 2 on Item Response Theory starts today, three Thursdays left. And ACRM opens Monday in DC through Oct 16. Busy week for anyone working in rehabilitation outcomes. #ItemResponseTheory #Rehabilitation #ACRM2026 M4 registration: northwestern.az1.qualtrics.c…

Two days. M4 Workshop 2 on Item Response Theory starts Thursday Oct 8, four sessions through Oct 29, free and grant-funded. #ItemResponseTheory #Psychometrics #ResearchTraining Register: northwestern.az1.qualtrics.c…

Test spotlight: Word Meaning is a synonym test with no pictures and no audio, so it works anywhere a participant happens to be. Correlated .70 with NIH Toolbox® Picture Vocabulary in person, .67 remote. #ReceptiveVocabulary #DigitalHealth #Psychometrics

Test spotlight: Arrow Matching. 50 trials, 2 seconds each, four distractor arrows pulling you the wrong way. Inhibitory control, on your own phone. #InhibitoryControl #ExecutiveFunction #DigitalHealth Learn more: mobiletoolbox.org

One week out. M4 Workshop 2 on Item Response Theory begins Oct 8 and runs four Thursdays. Free, grant-funded, open registration. #ItemResponseTheory #Psychometrics #ResearchTraining Sign up: northwestern.az1.qualtrics.c…

Test spotlight: Faces and Names. Twelve people, twelve names, then recall the face, the first letter, and the match. Associative memory, on the participant's own phone. #AssociativeMemory #DigitalHealth #CognitiveAging Learn more: mobiletoolbox.org

Grad students, postdocs, and early career researchers: up to $4,000 to support your project using Mobile Toolbox. Rolling review. #EarlyCareerResearchers #ResearchFunding #DigitalHealth Details and applications: [email protected] | mobiletoolbox.org

Does smartphone cognitive testing work with kids and teens? A feasibility study in Child Development put Mobile Toolbox to the test. #MobileToolbox #DigitalHealth #ChildDevelopment Young et al. (2024), open access: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…

Executive functioning and processing speed predicted global cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease (Haran et al. 2025). Mobile Toolbox measures both remotely: Shape-Color Sorting and Number-Symbol Match on the participant's own phone. #AlzheimersResearch pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…

Test spotlight for #WorldAlzheimersDay: Mobile Toolbox Spelling. Dictated words typed on the participant's own phone, adaptive item selection. Almost no age effect across adulthood, which may make it useful for estimating premorbid functioning. #MobileToolbox #DigitalHealth

Test spotlight: Faces and Names. Twelve face-name pairs learned, then recognition and recall after a delay. Derived from FNAME, which research has linked to amyloid burden in cognitively normal adults. Runs on a participant's own phone. #MobileToolbox #Memory #DigitalHealth

M4 Workshop 1 is underway. Social-Behavioral Influences on Aging, today and tomorrow, 9AM to 12PM CST. Missed it? Item Response Theory starts Oct 8 across four Thursdays. #MobileToolbox #Aging #HRS #HCAP #ResearchMethods

M4 Workshop 1 starts tomorrow. Social-Behavioral Influences on Aging, 9AM to 12PM CST Thursday and Friday, free. Not your area? Someone in your lab may be exactly the right fit. Pass it along. #MobileToolbox #Aging #HRS #HCAP Register: northwestern.az1.qualtrics.c…

Test spotlight: Number-Symbol Match. A processing speed measure with roots in early 20th century coding tasks, now running on participants' own phones. More at mobiletoolbox.org #MobileToolbox #DigitalHealth #ProcessingSpeed