DirectRT Tutorial
The following text is taken from the interactive tutorial located in the help folder after installation. You may prefer to print these pages rather than having them on-screen during the tutorial.
A good way to get the feeling of how DirectRT works is to run through the following series of samples sessions and then look at how they were put together. You can access these same samples by selecting "DirectRT Samples" from the Help menu of the main DirectRT program window. You can also access the samples directly if you like-they're located in the "samples" folder of the DirectRT directory. When creating your first input files you may wish to copy an appropriate sample folder and simply modify it to meet your needs.
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Bare Bones (45 min) |
Basics (60 min) |
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Ordering Trials (30 min) |
Applications (30 min) |
More Samples
The samples above are those intended to give you a good basic understanding of how DirectRT works. There are other useful features of DirectRT though that you can explore later in the following samples (all located in the DirectRT samples folder). To access additional samples or to post your own, please visit http://support.empirisoft.com and click on DirectRT: Shared Experiments.
Additional Response Features
Request a short open ended response
Open Ended Response Contingencies
Record a voice response and reaction time via the microphone
Record continuous joystick movement for a specified duration
Wait for TTL signal from an external device
Collect multiple response times per trial
Record KeyRelease time in addition to subsequent KeyPress time
Require correct response (e.g., IAT)
Response feedback (display subject's response on screen)
Record discrete joystick responses
Additional Stimulus Features
Use subjects own responses as subsequent stimuli
Clear the screen during a response time interval
Use randomly selected stimuli again on later trials
Send TTL signals to external equipment for physiological synchronization (e.g., SCAN)
Implicit Association Test (IAT) sample