Self Paced Reading

This is a self-paced moving window reading experiment by Irina Sekerina from the Center for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. I will add some explanation soon.

    <n 84> <azk> <fd 30> <wfbo><t 9000> <d 0> <id "keyboard"> <vm 1024 768 768 8 0><<BR>>


    0 "These are the instructions."<ms%ms% 1000>;<<BR>>
    0 <ln -3>"You will see each sentence represented on the screen", <ln -1>"as a series of series of = signs corresponding to words.", <ln 1>"Push the SPACEBAR to take you to the first word."<ms% 1000>;<<BR>>
    0 <ln -3>"Read the first word as quickly as possible and", <ln -1>"press YES Button (RIGHT_SHIFT).", <ln 1>"Read through the entire sentence by pressing Yes."<ms% 1000>;<<BR>>
    0 <ln -3>"After you have read the last word in the sentence,", <ln -1>"a YES NO question will appear on the screen.", <ln 1>"Answer the question quickly and accurately", <ln 3>"by pressing either YES or No (LEFT_SHIFT)."<ms% 1000>;<<BR>>
    0 "These are some practice items."<ms% 1000>;<<BR>>


    0 <ln -1> "=== == = == = = = = ========“, <ln 1> “=== = =======.";<<BR>>
    +2 <ln -1>"The == = == = = = = ========", <ln 1>"=== = =======."* <cr>;<<BR>>
    +3 <ln -1>"=== lawyer = == = = = = ========", <ln 1>"=== = =======."* <cr>;<<BR>>
    +4 <ln -1>"=== == heard == = = = = ========", <ln 1>"=== = =======."* <cr>;<<BR>>
    +5 <ln -1>"=== == = that == == = = ========", <ln 1>"=== = =======."* <cr>;<<BR>>
    +6 <ln -1>"=== == = == Jack == = = ========", <ln 1>"=== = =======."* <cr>;<<BR>>
    +7 <ln -1>"=== == = == = McCoy? = = ========", <ln 1>"=== = =======."* <cr>;<<BR>>
    +8 <ln -1>"=== == = == = = would = ========", <ln 1>"=== = =======."* <cr>;<<BR>>
    +9 <ln -1>"=== == = == == = = be ========", <ln 1>"=== = =======."* <cr>;<<BR>>
    +10 <ln -1>"=== == = == = = = = fighting", <ln 1>"=== = =======."* <cr>;<<BR>>
    +11 <ln -1>"=== == = == = = = = ========", <ln 1>"for = =======."* <cr>;<<BR>>
    +12 <ln -1>"=== == = == = = = = ========", <ln 1>"=== the =====."* <cr>;<<BR>>
    +13 <ln -1>"=== == = == = = = = ========", <ln 1>"=== = defendant."* <cr>;<<BR>>
    +100 %50/"Did the defendant have an attorney?"*;<<BR>>
    800 <ms% 1000>/; <<BR>>

-- Main.CarolineWhiting - 17 Sep 2007