Tracking participants’ behaviour when performing linguistic tasks
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2022/13/0029/000571Keywords:
Psycholinguistics, Offline task, Plausibility judgement, Acceptability judgement, Decision-making processAbstract
This study aims to identify behaviours accompanying the psychological processes involved in reading sentences and deciding on a response. The response times associated with different participant actions while completing a questionnaire were measured. We focus on two datasets from the sample: cases in which participants changed their responses and cases in which they did not. The results show that changing a response has an impact on response times. More importantly, this impact occurs not only during the decision-making process but throughout the entire task. This research may contribute to a better understanding of response-time data in offline techniques and to the fine-tuning of experimental designs.
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