The aim of the present study was the comparative assessment
of the 4-week test-retest stabilities of the saccadic CNV
(sCNV) and saccadic reaction times (SRT) during the execution
of pro- and antisaccades, as well as the stability of RT
during execution of two neuropsychological tests of alertness
and S-R incompatibility. Prosaccades were elicited under
the 200-ms gap and overlap conditions, antisaccades under
the overlap condition (64 trials each). The EEG was recorded
from 25 channels with a DC amplifier (MES, Munich). Data
of 20 healthy participants were statistically analyzed.
We found high test-retest correlations for all SRT (.76
≤ rtt ≤ .88) and neuropsychological
(.62 ≤ rtt ≤ .88) measures. For
the sCNV, coefficients ranging between .58 (pro/gap) and
.77 (anti/overlap) were obtained. Whereas SRT were significantly
faster during the second than during the first session,
group means for the saccadic CNV were stable across the
sessions. Our results suggest high 4-week stability of
individual differences in SRT, and moderate to good stabilities
of saccadic CNV amplitudes. Our results recommend these
“traitlike” measures to be used in individual
differences research.