An adaptive staircase procedure for the E-Prime programming environment

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 104-108

  Hairston, W David ^a,b   Maldjian, Joseph A ^b  

^a U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive; E Prime; Methods; Psychophysics; Staircase

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE; E-PRIME; METHODS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; STAIRCASE;

EXPERIMENTS; PHYSICS; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY;

STAIRS;

ALGORITHMS; BIOMETRY; HUMANS; SOFTWARE; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 58149141799     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2008.08.003     Document Type: Article

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