Validation in the context of commercialization : the white rabbit effect

In this edition of Sleep Medicine, Sadeh and colleagues [1] explorethe use of on-line technologies to measure neurobehavioralperformance (NBP). The authors present a new online continuousperformance test (OCPT) that can, at least in theory, be used to assessNBP remotely and aggregate data from a wide range of collectionsites and clinical populations. The OCPT is a computerizedchoice response task and is described in detail in the paper [1]. Errorrates and response times are recorded and stored on an externalweb server.