Experiment ideas that fit this course
Each option is a small teaching prototype, not a validated instrument or full replication. Start with a complete minimal version and inspect its data before adding features.
| Family | Minimal task | Building blocks | Limitation to discuss |
|---|---|---|---|
| Choice reaction time | Choose a key for one of two shapes | HTML/image keyboard response | Device latency and anticipation |
| Stroop/flanker | Respond to ink/central arrow, ignoring distractors | Condition labels, practice, keyboard response | Item balance, mapping, color access |
| Lexical decision | Decide word/nonword | HTML keyboard response and item table | Language proficiency, frequency, length, nonword quality |
| Self-paced reading | Advance through sentence segments, then answer a question | Repeated keyboard trials and comprehension response | Segment construction and interpretation of segment RT |
| Recognition memory | Study words, then judge old/new items | Study/test blocks and separate lists | Lure selection, false alarms versus misses |
| Visual search | Find a target in a small static array | Prepared images or HTML/CSS layout | Set size and target position balance |
| Judgment/decision | Compare options or rate a statement | Button/slider response and item order | Wording and scale use |
| Learning from feedback | Learn two simple shape categories | Feedback and practice/test phases | Feedback changes behavior; enough observations needed |
| Ratings + task | Rate plausibility, then perform a small task | Button ratings or survey plugin | Question wording and carryover |
| Mouse trajectories | Choose living/nonliving from a common start point | Button response + mouse extension | Geometry, device, irregular event sampling |
Ratings, recognition, and reading are feasible project options, not extra required workshops. A button-based rating scale works with the included plugins. Slider/survey plugins need an explicitly compatible package and a pilot. A reflective judgment need not inherit an RT task’s deadline.
Keep webcam gaze, adaptive staircases, very brief masked priming, synchronized media, real-time multi-person interaction, physiological devices, and custom computer vision outside the beginner core. They require additional engineering or measurement validation. Simplify a paper’s procedure rather than promising an equivalent implementation.
Read a paper’s method, identify one trial sequence and critical manipulation, then complete the paper-to-prototype worksheet. A public citation is enough; the anonymous survey does not need uploaded PDFs.
Reference: official plugin list.