Institute for Language Sciences Labs

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Why does my audio / video stutter when I use ZEP?

If you are running an experiment and you notice certain audio or video stimuli stuttering or being played with a certain delay, then it seems as if ZEP can’t load the stimuli files fast enough. Especially for time sensitive experiments, this can be catastrophic. If this happens it is very likely that you are running…

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Head-Turn Preference Procedure

Purpose of this ZEP-based experiment is to see whether an infant participant can detect a difference between two types of auditory stimuli. The infant sits on the caregiver lap facing a wall on which a green light, an invisible speaker and a camera is mounted. On each side wall a red light (or other visual…

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Flanker Task

The target is flanked by non-target stimuli which correspond either to the same directional response as the target (congruent flankers), to the opposite response (incongruent flankers), or to neither (neutral flankers). The test can be used to assess the ability to suppress responses that are inappropriate in a particular context. Randomisation is according to these rules:…

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Text Reading – Eye Tracking

The purpose of this experiment is to record a participant’s eye-movements while he/she is reading a short text. For each trial a text is presented on the screen. Participant’s task is to read text and optionally respond to a true/false statement about the text. Self-paced. Output: Eye-Tracking data as collected by the eye-tracker. In this implementation…

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