Chapter 7

Collecting Reaction Times II

Attention

The primary goals of this chapter are to consolidate and generalize what you know about data collection in MATLAB®. Moreover, we will elaborate on data analysis in MATLAB beyond simple correlations. You will also learn how reaction time data can be used to infer the mental process of spatial attention.

Keywords

attention; Posner paradigm; ANOVA; spatial attention

7.1 Goals of this Chapter

The primary goals of this chapter are to consolidate and generalize what you learned in Chapter 6 about data collection in MATLAB®. Moreover, we will elaborate on data analysis in MATLAB beyond simple correlations. You will also learn how reaction time data can be used to infer the mental process of spatial attention. ...

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