U Can Touch This: How Tablets Can Be Used to Study Cognitive Development.

ABSTRACT: New technological devices, particularly those with touch screens, have become virtually omnipresent over the last decade. Practically from birth, children are now surrounded by smart phones and tablets. Despite being our constant companions, little is known about whether these tools can be used not only for entertainment, but also to collect reliable scientific data. Tablets may prove particularly useful for collecting behavioral data from those children (1-10 years), who are, for the most part, too old for studies based on looking times and too young for classical psychophysical testing. Here, we analyzed data from six studies that utilized touch screen tablets to deliver experimental paradigms in developmental psychology. In studies 1 and 2, we employed a simple sorting and recall task w

SUBMITTER: Semmelmann K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4935681 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature