How to make your own response boxes: A step-by-step guide for the construction of reliable and inexpensive parallel-port response pads from computer mice

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• 作者：Andreas Voss (1)
  Rainer Leonhart (1)
  Christoph Stahl (1)
  
• 刊名：Behavior Research Methods
• 出版年：2007
• 出版时间：November 2007
• 年：2007
• 卷：39
• 期：4
• 页码：797-801
• 全文大小：136KB
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• 作者单位：Andreas Voss (1)
  Rainer Leonhart (1)
  Christoph Stahl (1)
  
  1. Department of Psychology, Albert-Ludwigs-Universit?t Freiburg, 79085, Freiburg, Germany
  

文摘

Psychological research is based in large parts on response latencies, which are often registered by keypresses on a standard computer keyboard. Recording response latencies with a standard keyboard is problematic because keypresses are buffered within the keyboard hardware before they are signaled to the computer, adding error variance to the recorded latencies. This can be circumvented by using external response pads connected to the computer’s parallel port. In this article, we describe how to build inexpensive, reliable, and easy-to-use response pads with six keys from two standard computer mice that can be connected to the PC’s parallel port. We also address the problem of recording data from the parallel port with different software packages under Microsoft’s Windows XP.