title: Windows executable software for the progressive demasking task.
abstract: The progressive demasking (PDM) task is a perceptual identification task using degraded stimulus presentation procedures, but with the advantage of providing response time (RT) measures on each trial. Participants simply press a response button whenever they recognize a word. In this article, we present newly developed, easy-to-use freeware for PDM. Considering the difficulty of programming such a paradigm with standard experimental software, we developed a program based on high-level C libraries to be executed on Windows XP computers. The program execution is millisecond accurate forRT measurements and generates the fewest possible display duration errors.
authors.affiliation: CNRS, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France. stephane.dufau@univ-provence.fr
authors.forename: Stéphane
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dufau
authors.forename: Michaël
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stevens
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Grainger
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D006801:Humans; D010465:Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D012984:Software