| Title |
Millisecond precision psychological research in a world of commodity computers: New hardware, new problems?
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| Published in |
Behavior Research Methods, August 2009
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| DOI | 10.3758/brm.41.3.598 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Richard R. Plant, Garry Turner |
| Abstract |
Since the publication of Plant, Hammond, and Turner (2004), which highlighted a pressing need for researchers to pay more attention to sources of error in computer-based experiments, the landscape has undoubtedly changed, but not necessarily for the better. Readily available hardware has improved in terms of raw speed; multi core processors abound; graphics cards now have hundreds of megabytes of RAM; main memory is measured in gigabytes; drive space is measured in terabytes; ever larger thin film transistor displays capable of single-digit response times, together with newer Digital Light Processing multimedia projectors, enable much greater graphic complexity; and new 64-bit operating systems, such as Microsoft Vista, are now commonplace. However, have millisecond-accurate presentation and response timing improved, and will they ever be available in commodity computers and peripherals? In the present article, we used a Black Box ToolKit to measure the variability in timing characteristics of hardware used commonly in psychological research. |
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| Brazil | 3 | 3% |
| Austria | 2 | 2% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 2% |
| Ireland | 1 | <1% |
| Portugal | 1 | <1% |
| Spain | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 1 | <1% |
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| Researcher | 23 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 19 | 17% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 7% |
| Professor | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 22 | 19% |
| Unknown | 14 | 12% |
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| Psychology | 61 | 53% |
| Computer Science | 8 | 7% |
| Neuroscience | 7 | 6% |
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