nodeGame: Real-time, synchronous, online experiments in the browser

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 1696-1715

  Balietti, Stefano ^a  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Behavioral experiments; Browser; JavaScript; Online; Open source; Real time; Software

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DOCUMENTATION; SMARTPHONE; SOFTWARE; TABLET; HUMAN; INTERNET; PROCEDURES;

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; INTERNET; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84995747470     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-016-0824-z     Document Type: Review

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