Low-cost instruments with matched protocols, built by psychologists, for psychologists. Everything here is in development.
The I and the O from an instrument's power switch. Scroll to seat them.
Fitted together into a P, the way a sensor sits in its housing.
In a mirror-drawing practical, time taken and errors are read off a counter and copied by hand. That is all the trial leaves behind.
A sensor keeps recording while the participant works. Each dashed line marks a moment in the task, and the trace shows how the body responded around it.
Recorded by hand. Illustrative values.
Time during one trialIllustrative shape, not recorded data
The Mental Rotation device has a knob on top of the box, not buttons. As the knob turns, the object on screen turns with it, until it lines up with the target.
Difference from target0°
The same knob, with a rotated letter stimulus0°
On-screen illustration
Each is matched to one experiment that departments already teach. All three are in development.
Respond to one kind of cue and hold back on another. This instrument is meant to show what happens in the moment of holding back.
Name the ink colour and ignore the word. This instrument is meant to record what that conflict costs, beyond the time on the clock.
Turn the knob on top of the box and the 3D object on screen turns with it, until it matches the target. There are no buttons.
A practical should end with data students can analyse. This is how a session is designed to go.
Plug the device into a laptop and start the task. Instructions and the protocol come with the instrument.
Watch live graphs while the participant works. Movement, skin, face and brain signals can sit alongside the task, depending on the protocol.
Take the time-stamped data straight into the statistics software your department already teaches.
| time_ms | trial | start_deg | final_deg | time_taken_ms |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12480 | 1 | 120 | 2 | 3412 |
| 18910 | 2 | 45 | 1 | 1876 |
| 24355 | 3 | 160 | 359 | 4120 |
| 31020 | 4 | 80 | 0 | 2544 |
Illustrative rows, not recorded data.
We are at the idea stage. Validation is a step before release, and no instrument has completed it yet.
Interview faculty and heads of department, and settle the three launch protocols.
Build first working devices for Go/No-Go, Stroop and Mental Rotation.
Pilot with undergraduate students under ethics approval, and check reliability and validity against standard versions of each task.
Trial the instruments and the first software version in pilot departments.
Open the Starter Lab for quote requests and submit the validation paper.
Tell us what your department teaches. We will tell you honestly what we can show today and what comes next.