Journal
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH METHODS
Volume 54, Issue 2, Pages 712-728Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-021-01653-y
Keywords
Timing experiment; Auditory stimuli; Sensorimotor synchronization
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- CONICET
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Measuring human capabilities related to time synchronization and response time often requires precise experimental setups. This paper introduces a cost-effective experimental setup with easy-to-use code for analyzing response times efficiently.
Measuring human capabilities to synchronize in time, adapt to perturbations to timing sequences, or reproduce time intervals often requires experimental setups that allow recording response times with millisecond precision. Most setups present auditory stimuli using either MIDI devices or specialized hardware such as Arduino and are often expensive or require calibration and advanced programming skills. Here, we present in detail an experimental setup that only requires an external sound card and minor electronic skills, works on a conventional PC, is cheaper than alternatives, and requires almost no programming skills. It is intended for presenting any auditory stimuli and recording tapping response times with within 2-ms precision (up to - 2 ms lag). This paper shows why desired accuracy in recording response times against auditory stimuli is difficult to achieve in conventional computer setups, presents an experimental setup to overcome this, and explains in detail how to set it up and use the provided code. Finally, the code for analyzing the recorded tapping responses was evaluated, showing that no spurious or missing events were found in 94% of the analyzed recordings.
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