How do I ...?

Make a recording

• Check availability and book booth in Sound Room via CBU Homepage Administration: it works with Internet Explorer.

• Check availability of recording equipment: email Sally Butterfield

• FlashcardRecorders: Flash Card recorders record audio directly to a Compact Flash card which can then be read directly into a desktop computer using either a cable or the flash card reader/writer. The basic recording function is very straight-forward, but the naming of files transferred, erasing and re-numbering tracks less so - consult manual or ask. Various formats and sampling rates are available: intermittent noise has occurred on some 22.05 kHz mono recordings. Best to check a sample before recording a long session or use 44.1 kHz and down-sample with sound editor.

Edit recordings

The first step is to install a waveform editor. The main one we use is Audacity, but you can also use its predecessor CoolEdit. Both programs can be downloaded from here: Audacity (local)

Audacity on SourceForge

CoolEdit

If you want to extract parts of a file (say individual words from a large file), or cross-splice or join files together, you should take a look at ProgramsToManipulateWavFiles. Note that these programs work best under Unix. You can save yourself a lot of effort by combining these programs in a Unix script.

Prepare speech and language experiments:

• EPrime
• DMDX

• try looking in SoftwareTools

Use the testing booths in room 448

• book a room for testing via CBU Homepage Administration: it works with Internet Explorer.

• keep the booths cool in the testing area. There is a sheet of suggestions on the wall.
• shut down at the end of testing day

• report problems to Maarten van Casteren

Present sound in the scanner

• MaartensScannerSoftware

The F2 Debate and Mixed effects analyses

• Presentation by Matt Davis and Lotte Meteyard (a brief history of the Items analysis debate and some implications for imaging):
  • see show attachments below
• Clark (1973) "Language as Fixed Effects Fallacy" JoVLVB (now JML) seminal paper in items analysis debate: see show attachments below

• The_language_as_fixed_effect_fallacy_Some_simple_SPSS09solutions-1.pdf Brysbaert F2 manuscript

• Brysbaert F2 Ms associated files

• Raaijmakers (2003) A Further Look at the "Language-as-Fixed-Effect Fallacy"

• Raaijmakers, Schrijnemakers & Gremmen (1999)

• Rietveld and van Hout (2007) "Analysis of variance for repeated measures designs with word materials as a nested, random or repeated factor" Behavior Research Methods

• Locker, Hoffman & Bovaird et al (2007) "On the use of multilevel modeling as an alternative to items analysis in psycholinguistic research" BRM accessible summary and introduction to multilevel modelling: see show attachments below.