ScriptingRT: A Software Library for Collecting Response Latencies in Online Studies of Cognition

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Schubert, Thomas W ^a,b   Murteira, Carla ^b   Collins, Elizabeth C ^b   Lopes, Diniz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; LABORATORY; LATENT PERIOD; LIBRARY; MEASUREMENT; NERVE POTENTIAL; ONLINE ANALYSIS; ONLINE SYSTEM; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STROOP TEST; VARIANCE; WEB BROWSER; HUMAN; INTERNET; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SOFTWARE;

COGNITION; HUMANS; INTERNET; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84879251294     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067769     Document Type: Article

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