This study has been approved by the Research Ethics Board of the McGill University Health Center (MUHC).


Before you begin the task, please read the following consent form.

Principal Investigator:
Lesley Fellows, MD, DPhil
Montreal Neurological Institute
3801 University St.
Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4
Email: lesley.fellows@mcgill.ca
Telephone: 514-398-8980

𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝘆 𝗣𝘂𝗿𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗲
This study aims to understand the factors that influence decision-making. The session will involve completing games or tests on a computer. Some may test basic aspects of thinking, such as memory, response speed, or motivation. Others test decision-making by having you solve problems, make choices or provide ratings of items shown as images or text. You may also be asked to answer some questions about your personality, decision style, demographics, mood and memory. The study will take less than 30 minutes.

𝗔𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲𝘀
There is no direct benefit to you during your participation in this study.

𝗣𝗼𝘁𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗶𝘀𝗸𝘀
There are no anticipated physical risks of participating in this research. You may find the tasks dull or tiring.

𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆
The investigators will maintain all information collected in this study strictly confidential, except as may be required by court order or by law. All information collected in the study will be stored initially on a computer server, protected by standard physical and digital security measures. Potentially identifying information (your email address), is kept separate from your test performance data, which are labelled only with a study code. You may use a temporary email address for this study, if you wish. Once a month, all data will be permanently removed from the server, and the code-identified data will be transferred to a secured computer within the Principal Investigator’s laboratory for a period of up to 7 years.

Your email address will be deleted at the completion of this study (see Compensation section), unless you wish to be contacted about future, similar studies. If you do, we would keep your email address for up to 5 years, for the purposes of contacting you. In that case, we would link you email address to your study code in a password-protected file, separate from the data files. You will not be identified in any publication or presentation that may result from this research. If you agree (see below), the data (without any link to you as an individual) may also be made available to other researchers to allow more to be learned.

𝗪𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗱𝗿𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗹
You are free to withdraw from the experiment at any time, and can do so simply by closing the webpage. No data will be kept if you exit the webpage before you have completed the study. If you choose to withdraw after completing the study, you may do so by contacting the Principal Investigator by email or phone. Any personally identifiable information, i.e. your email address, and any data that can be linked to it will be deleted if you so request. Fully de-identified data cannot be deleted.

𝗡𝗼𝗻-𝗪𝗮𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝗟𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀
By accepting to participate in this project, you are not waiving any of your legal rights nor discharging the researchers, or the institution of their civil and professional responsibility.

𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
If you complete the study, you will be entered into a draw for one of five 100$ gift cards to Amazon.ca. At the conclusion of this study, five participants will be randomly selected and will be contacted at the email address they provided to claim their prize.  Once the prizes have been drawn, all email addresses will be deleted, unless you indicate otherwise, below.

𝗤𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀
If you have any questions regarding your rights as a research subject and you wish to discuss them with someone not conducting the study, you may contact the Montreal Neurological Hospital, Patient Ombudsman at 514-934-1934, ext 48306. The study Principal Investigator can be reached at the phone number or email address provided at the top of this form.