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(If you do this task, you can skip Task 3 of this module ["Make a simple DMDX experiment"], as this task is a more advanced version of the same thing.)

Find a paper reporting an experiment that uses experiment control software, and recreate that experiment (using DMDX or any other software you have available).

Note that some experiments may require concepts that were not covered in the tutorials here. For example, long-lag priming experiments require fairly complicated coding to control the order of the stimuli; some experiments require complex branching logic (such that the stimuli aren't totally random, but the order of later stimuli is determined by the responses participants make earlier); etc. If you want to make your life easier, you might want to avoid those kinds of experiments and instead find a paper reporting something fairly simple (e.g. a standard priming experiment or a standard self-paced reading experiment). But of course, if you will need to do that sort of experiment itself for your own research at some point, then now is a good time to dive in and figure out how to do it.


by Stephen Politzer-Ahles. Last modified on 2021-05-14. CC-BY-4.0.