TopicCoding
2012
- Codecademic
Points and badges For the past week or so, I have been working my way through Codecademy's JavaScript tutorials. I can't recommend them highly enough. As things stand, I have a full house of 480 points…
- Web-based Cognitive Psychology Experiments
This year, I decided to learn how to present cognitive psychology experiments online. Five months in, I'm happy with my progress. Since the second-year of my PhD, when I spent a couple of weeks getting nowhere…
- Modifying DrawFormattedText to allow offset of horizontal centering
To present stimuli for my experiments in the lab, I use Psychophysics Toolbox (Psychtoolbox) in conjunction with Matlab. One limitation of Psychtoolbox is that the included DrawFormattedText function does not allow text to be horizontally centered…
- Exploring Online Experiment Participation with Google Analytics
The lab's first Javascript experiment has been online for about 3 weeks now, and has amassed close to 200 participants. It's been a great experience discovering that the benefits of online testing (60+ participants a week,…
- Codecademy Stories
A couple of months ago, the folks at c odecademy were nice enough to respond to a complimentary e-mail I'd sent them by writing something nice back about me and publishing it on their codecademy.com/stories page.…
2013
- Using the Raspberry Pi to Run Cognitive Psychology Experiments
The Raspberry Pi (photo credit: Wikipedia) A few months ago, I suggested that Raspberry Pis could be used as a barebones experiment presentation machine . Since then I have got my hands on one and tinkered…
2014
- Conducting Online Experiments - The How To Guide
This is a guest post from Radka Jersakova ( @RadkaJersakova ), who did her undergraduate degree in my lab and is now working on her PhD at Leeds University and the Université de Bourgogne in Dijon.…