Adaptation of the Temporal Bisection Task for Remote Collection:
Development, Analysis and Validation
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic posed a significant impediment to experimental
research, leading several researchers to adapt psychophysical data
acquisition. With the development and proliferation of information
technology, paper-based organizational processes have gradually begun to
be replaced by computer-based equivalents. This study describes how we
developed, analyzed data, and validated the temporal bisection task in a
remote data acquisition scenario. We implemented the data acquisition
using the open science software OpenSesame, in conjunction with the
JATOS platform. We described in detail all the steps to use our codes,
which we made available for reuse. We acquired data from 28 participants
using the remote acquisition system and compared them with data obtained
in person (from Penney et al., 2000). Our remote data showed compatible
results with live experiments, suggesting that the modality of data
acquisition (remote or live) does not influence the results.