Experiment Resources
Need tools for your linguistic or psycholinguistic research? Look no further. I have compiled a collection of demo experiments and tutorials using popular platforms like jsPsych, PsychoPy, and OpenSesame.
Feel free to use and adapt these materials for your own research.
jsPsych
- A powerful JavaScript library for creating online behavioral experiments
- Includes a core engine and plugins for various task types
- Explore two demo experiments: a sociolinguistics task and an identification task
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Sociolinguistics task
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Participants are asked to listen to a conversation and answer several questions. | link | download |
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Identification task
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Participants are asked to listen to a conversation and identify what they heard between “pa” and “ba” by selecting a corresponding button on their electronic device. | link | download |
Tutorial materials about online experiments using jsPsych
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Creating online experiments using jsPysch: Sociolinguistics and Identification task
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download |
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How to set up a web server
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download |
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How to create a new user
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download |
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How to set up a Filezilla
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download |
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How to change permissions on data folders
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download |
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How to link an experiment to MTurk
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download |
PsychoPy
- A comprehensive software for creating and running psychological experiments
- Offers a user-friendly Builder interface for designing experiments visually
- Explore demo experiments, covering topics such as perception, cognition, and psychophysics
| Task | Purpose | Demo Experiment |
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Word production task 1
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Each word appears every 3 seconds. | |
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Word production task 2
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Each word appears after a participant presses the space bar. | |
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Identification task
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Participants are asked to listen to a sound and identify it among several sounds. | |
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AX discrimination task
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Participants are asked to listen to two sounds and determine whether they are the same or not. | |
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Rating task
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Participants are asked to listen to sounds and rate the accuracy of sounds on a scale of 1-7. |
OpenSesame
- A versatile platform for creating and running behavioral experiments
- Offers a graphical user interface for easy experiment design
- Explore demo experiments to see OpenSesame in action
| Task | Purpose | Demo Experiment |
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AX task
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Participants are asked to listen to two Korean contrasts and choose whether they are the same sound or not. | download |
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Identification task
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Participants are asked to listen to one of the Korean three ways contrasts (aspirated, lenis, fortis) and identify they they heard by clicking on the corresponding number on the keyboard. | download |