DiViDu – An Open Source Solution for Dual Task Experiments with Integrated Divided Visual Field Paradigm

Nina Heck; Moritz Schubotz

doi:10.5334/jors.199

DiViDu – An Open Source Solution for Dual Task Experiments with Integrated Divided Visual Field Paradigm

Journal of Open Research Software

Volume 6 (2018): Issue 1

By: Nina Heck and Moritz Schubotz

Open Access

|Apr 2018

Abstract

We here present DiViDu, a research software, which we developed for a dual task experiment with an integrated divided visual field paradigm. The dual task experiment consists of a lexical decision task with different semantic verb categories, and a complex tapping task with either the left or right hand. The software allows researchers the replication of our experiment, as well as the reconfiguration for further dual task experiments with alternative tapping tasks and stimuli (e.g., word classes, semantic classes, task languages) as well as adjusted experimental settings. Furthermore, with only slight modifications to the source code, researchers can implement various new experimental setups including a large variety of language tasks (e.g., silent and aloud reading, naming, verbal fluency) and non-verbal tasks. The software DiViDu is implemented using the .NET framework and is available under the Apache 2 License on GitHub (https://github.com/dividu/dividu).

Funding statement: The publication of the paper was supported by the Open Access Publication Fund of the University of Konstanz.

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