How choice of mouse may affect response timing in psychological studies
How choice of mouse may affect response timing in psychological studies
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10.3758/bf03202553
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2003-05-01
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Whitehouse, T
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Plant, RR;Hammond, N;Whitehouse, T
20世纪90年代早期的小鼠似乎提供了一种廉价可行的替代品，可以替代更昂贵的反应盒，并且在研究之间发现了相当一致的结果。然而，在这十年中有什么变化吗？新的鼠标技术一定更好吗？USB是比老式串行接口更好的鼠标接口吗？考虑到这些问题，我们概述了一种方法，用于测试PC外小鼠的时间特性，以预测其对响应时间的贡献。在视觉刺激-反应范例下测试小鼠的样本集，使用E-Prime将预测的表现与测量的反应配准进行比较。一系列具有代表性的鼠标技术与标准键盘和E-Prime豪华响应盒一起进行了测试。使用任何响应设备以外的公认的响应框的影响进行了讨论。
Mice from the early 1990s seemed to offer a cheap and viable alternative to more expensive response boxes, with fairly consistent results being found between studies. However, has anything changed in the intervening decade? Are newer mice technologies necessarily better? Is USB a better mouse interface than the old-fashioned serial interface? With such questions in mind, we outline a method for benchtesting the timing characteristics of mice outside of a PC, in order to predict their contribution to response timing. A sample set of mice was tested under a visual stimulus-response paradigm, using E-Prime to compare predicted performance with measured response registration. A representative range of mice technologies was tested alongside a standard keyboard and an E-Prime deluxe response box. The implications for using any response device other than a recognized response box are discussed.