Our data demonstrate the accuracy of our system, which suggests that it may be a good substitute for the PP with E-Prime. We tested this device against the PP on both a desktop and a laptop machine in different stress tests. Here we propose a convenient USB device enabling parallel I/O capabilities.
However, the PP is an old and disappearing technology that, for example, is no longer available on portable computers.
This is typically done via computer software such as E-Prime, and fast communications are typically assured by the Parallel Port (PP). They indicated their responses by pressing one of two response buttons on the E-Prime SRBox. During the experiment participants were required to carry out a language switching task, controlled by E-Prime Software, switching between Dutch (L1) and English (L2). For instance, a typical Event-Related Potential (ERP) study requires an extremely accurate synchronization of stimulus delivery with recordings. Participants were instructed (in French) to perform a lexical decision by deciding whether the letter sequence presented in uppercase was a word or not, responding as quickly and as accurately as possible. The fMRI experiment included one run of 6 min and 46 s, in an event-related design, using 76 trials. Psychological and neurophysiological experiments require the accurate control of timing and synchrony for Input/Output signals. Significant phonological priming was observed, suggesting that (a) phonological representations are rapidly and automatically activated by print during visual word recognition from Grade 3 onward and that (b) the activation of phonological representations is not language specific in bilingual children.A convenient and accurate parallel Input/Output USB device for E-Prime A convenient and accurate parallel Input/Output USB device for E-PrimeĬanto, Rosario Bufalari, Ilaria D’Ausilio, Alessandro The stimulus presentation program used was E-Prime version 2.0, and a SRBOX Cedrus was used to record the subjects’ responses.
After a retention period, one item was presented at xation, and subjects had. Targets were French words, and primes were English pseudowords of three types: (a) phonological primes, which share phonological information with the target beginning (e.g., dee-DIMANCHE, pronounced /di:/-/dimãʃ/) (b) orthographic control primes, which control for letters shared by the phonological prime and target (e.g., d) and their position (e.g., doo-DIMANCHE, pronounced /du:/-/dimãʃ/) and (c) unrelated primes, which share no phonological or orthographic information with the target beginning (e.g., pow-DIMANCHE, pronounced /paʊ/-/dimãʃ/). presented a memory display containing an equal number of items in the LVF and RVF simultaneously.
The current study investigated these issues in bilingual third and fifth graders using cross-language phonological masked priming in a lexical decision task. When participants are asked to judge whether a number is odd or even, by pressing a left-sided or a right-sided button, reaction times (RTs) are faster when participants respond to relatively larger numbers (e.g., 9) with the right-sided button than with the left-sided one, whereas the opposite result is observed for relatively smaller numbers. You may also find this documented in the SRBoxDevice.Lamps topic in the E-Basic Help facility.
That example shows how to use the SRBox.Lamp command in InLine code to control the SRBox lamps. Second, no empirical data exist on whether the activation of phonological representations is language specific or not in bilingual children. The SRBoxLamps example is provided as an E-Prime 1 file, so you will have to convert it to E-Prime 2. First, it is unclear whether there is automatic phonological activation during visual word recognition among children in general. Activation also occurs across languages in bilingual adult readers, suggesting that the activation of phonological representations is not language specific.
Previous masked priming research has shown automatic phonological activation during visual word recognition in monolingual skilled adult readers.