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Online Visual Cognition Experiments

By omnibrain on March 5, 2007.

i-b5d0c43aba23a95817ba35ae4e565b4f-ineyefi.jpgThe Visual Cognition laboratory at Harvard is looking for your help!

These aren't the usual ho-hum surveys - these are some pretty cool visual cognition experiments (I'm biased of course since that's what I study).

Head on over and participate in a short study!

From Josh:

Web-based experiments are becoming very common. Putting surveys online
is not that new and is already reasonably common, but it was generally
thought that you couldn't put cognitive psychology and perception
experiments online because they require careful controls in timing,
display, etc. Well, increased bandwidth has helped with some of that,
and the ability to get massive numbers of subjects may take care of
the increased variability.

Perhaps we can convince Josh to present us with some results when they are all in.

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