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In this article we describe some of the experimental software we have developed for the study of associative human learning and memory. All these programs have the appearance of very simple video games. Some of them use the participants’ behavioral responses to certain stimuli during the game as a dependent variable for measuring their learning of the target cue-outcome associations. Some others explicitly ask participants to rate the degree of relationship they perceive between the cues and the outcomes. These programs are implemented in Web pages using JavaScript, which allows their use both in traditional laboratory experiments as well as in Internet-based experiments.
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This research was supported by Grant SEJ2007-6391/PSIC from the Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spain) and by Grant SEJ406 from Junta de Andalucía. We thank Francisco Arcediano, Fernando Blanco, Leyre Castro, Martha Escobar, Mirko Gerolin, Cristina Orgaz, Nuria Ortega, Oskar Pineño, Sonia Vegas, and all other students and colleagues who over the years have contributed their expertise to the development of these preparations in our laboratory. We also thank Pili Díez for polishing our English and an anonymous reviewer for very helpful comments on a previous version of this article.
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Matute, H., Vadillo, M.A. & Bárcena, R. Web-based experiment control software for research and teaching on human learning. Behavior Research Methods 39, 689–693 (2007). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03193041
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