This is a demonstration that belongs to the the article Sex differences in the Simon task help to interpret sex differences in selective attention which was published in the journal Psychological Research.
| You can read the research article here. |
Background information
The article describes an online version of the Simon task. If you click the link, you can try the online task yourself, and afterwards you can see your own data. Note that the participants did not see their own data. The reason it is shown here just gives an impression of the type of data used in the study.
Run the demo
Understand the output
When the experiment is finished, you can see your the produced output data. Note that in the real experiment, participants did not have this option. Instead, these data were saved on the server for later analysis by the researcher.
| Colum | Meaning |
|---|---|
1 |
Name of the block |
2 |
The position of the stimulus relative to center of screen (left or right) |
3 |
The type of arrow (left or right pointing) |
4 |
The condition number (1: left position, left pointing, 2: right position, right pointing, 3: right position, left pointing, 4: left position, right pointing) |
5 |
Same as 4 (redundant) |
6 |
Ascii code of the key pressed |
7 |
Status of current trial (1=correct, 2=wrong, 3=slow) |
8 |
Reaction time in milliseconds |