PASAT

[Daniel Zajdel]

Why do you want to implement PASAT on a computer? What is wrong with the good old fashioned pencil, paper and audio recording? Because I can guarentee you that given noob coding skills you could quite possibly collect all your data before you figure this out in any stimulus presentation package. Not only that, but if you are entertaining an idea that is anything other a vocal response, like typing on a keypad, changes the task significantly and that data is no longer comparable to any legacy data or data in the literature. The whole reason PASAT was developed in the first place was for study populations like Multiple Sclerosis, where you want to remove the motor component and get at just the cognitive aspect.
So from the programming perspective, you will have to get clever like David and Ilwenna. But from a scientific perspective, and isn't that the more important part, I'm not so sure an eprime PASAT is a very hot idea.

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From: e-prime at googlegroups.com [e-prime at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Moore [D.Moore at bath.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:53 AM
To: e-prime at googlegroups.com
Subject: PASAT

Dear all,

I am trying to program a Paced Auditory Serial Addition Task (PASAT) and am
wondering if anybody has programmed one of these before and can help. The
task essentially involves presenting numbers to participant and asking them
to indicate what the sum of the previous two numbers is.

I have a few problems programming this which people may be able to
independently help with if no one has a PASAT task. First how would I allow
participants to indicate that the answer is a two digit number. Second how
would I indicate to eprime that the correct answer is the sum of the
previous two answers?

Best
David


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