APA 2120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Chronometry

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Human Kinetics
• Course: APA 2120
• Professor: Diane Ste- Marie

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Lecture 4 decision making (red light green light) Index of the time for information processing (rt, interval b/t the presentation of a stimulus to the initiation of a response) Premotor time: time from go signal to the onset of the signal. Motor time: onset of muscle to onset of the movement. Modality (the way the stimulus is presented can influence the rt: rt of tactile (using hands) < auditory < visual. E. g. have green lights appear on screen (w/ each light assigned to a specific key on keyboard), and when the light appears, you must hit its respective key on keyboard.