November 2024
Intermediate to advanced
200 pages
5h 22m
English
Rebecca J. Hirst, Jonathan W. Peirce, and Edwin S. Dalmaijer
Almost every computer-based experiment in psychology and cognitive neuroscience requires participants to respond in one way or another. The most common instrument to collect these responses is the computer keyboard. In the following chapters, you will learn how to collect and process keypresses.
Some researchers claim that keyboards are too slow for their purposes, as they require “millisecond accuracy”. Because it is important to know your tools, this chapter will investigate this claim.
In most operating systems, peripherals (keyboards, mouses, joysticks, game controllers etc.) are polled ...
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