Abstract
Few would argue that the unique insights brought by studying the typical and atypical development of psychological processes are essential to building a comprehensive understanding of the brain. Often, however, the associated challenges of working with non-standard adult populations results in the more complex psychophysical paradigms being rejected as too complex. Recently we created a child (and clinical group) friendly implementation of one such technique – the reverse correlation Bubbles approach and noted an associated performance boost in adult participants. Here, we compare the administration of three different versions of this participant-friendly task in the same adult participants to empirically confirm that introducing elements in the experiment with the sole purpose of improving the participant experience, not only boost the participant’s engagement and motivation for the task but results in significantly improved objective task performance and stronger statistical results.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1011–1019 |
Number of pages | 9 |
Journal | Behavior Research Methods |
Volume | 50 |
Issue number | 3 |
Early online date | 23 Jun 2017 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jun 2018 |
Keywords
- Reverse correlation
- Bubbles
- task engagement
- child friendly
- experimental outcomes
Profiles
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Louise Ewing
- School of Psychology - Associate Professor in Psychology
- Developmental Science - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching & Research