Doing Experimental Psychological Research from Remote: How Alerting Differently Impacts Online vs. Lab Setting.

ABSTRACT: Due to pandemic-imposed restrictions on lab-based research, we have recently witnessed a flourishing of online studies in experimental psychology, based on the collection of fine behavioral measures such as reaction times (RTs) and accuracy. However, it remains unclear whether participants' alerting levels may have a different impact on behavioral performance in the online vs. lab setting. In this work we administered online and in-lab the dynamic temporal prediction (DTP) task, which requires an implicit modulation of participants' alerting by alternating experimental conditions implying either slower or faster response rates. We then compared data distribution, RTs, accuracy, and time-on-task effects across the adult lifespan between the settings. We replicated online and across the whol

SUBMITTER: Del Popolo Cristaldi F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9405885 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature