[solved] reading times

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• sebastiaan

  October 2014 edited 9:20PM

  Hi Sylvia,

  What you could do is the following.

  1. Present your text using a form_text_display. This will normally wait until you click on a button, but you can change this by editing the script and adding the line set only_render yes. This will make the form_text_display non-interactive, i.e. behaving like a sketchpad with a 0 ms duration.
  2. After the form_text_display, insert a keyboard_response. The response time as recorded by the keyboard_response will now correspond to the reading time.

  See also:

  • http://osdoc.cogsci.nl/forms/custom-forms/#non-interactive-forms

  Does that make sense?

  Cheers,
  Sebastiaan

  
  
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• sylvsav

  October 2014 edited October 2014

  Thank you for your response Sebastiaan!

  Actually, all the text items that I have put in the experiment are all sketchpad items that contain the text pieces as a picture. Specifically, I have separate sketchpad items that present pieces of text as manipulated variables. After each sketchpad, I have put a keyboard response. The sketchpad item sits there until the participant finishes reading the text piece presented and, so, he/she presses the space bar.
  So, can I do what you suggested by keeping the sketchpad items instead of changing them in text display items?

  Thank you again
  Sylvia
• sebastiaan

  October 2014 edited 9:20PM

  So, can I do what you suggested by keeping the sketchpad items instead of changing them in text display items?

  Sure. In that case you have the simplest of simplest experiments: Just present an image and collect a response time!

  Cheers,
  Sebastiaan

  
  
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• sylvsav

  October 2014 edited 9:20PM

  Thank you so much Sebastiaan!

  Sylvia