If you are a psychologist, neuroscientist or vision researcher who uses a computer to run experiments, and report timing accuracy in units of a millisecond, then it's likely your timings are wrong! This can lead to replication failure, spurious results and questionable conclusions. Timing error affects your work even when you use an experiment generator like E-Prime, SuperLab, Inquisit, Presentation, Paradigm or PsychoPy…
Modern computer hardware may be faster but millisecond timing accuracy gets harder to achieve year-on-year. A common misconception is that 'millisecond precision' equals 'millisecond accuracy'. Precision simply means that timings are reported in units of a millisecond, not that they are accurate! Low level access to hardware is now becoming problematic even for experienced programmers.
Our products are designed to help you improve your presentation synchronization, response timing and TTL event marking/TTL trigger accuracy.
To improve replication and enhance credibility we also encourage researchers to self-validate, or self-certify, their own studies in terms of millisecond timing accuracy using a BBTK v2.
The Black Box ToolKit
specializes in products that help psychologists, neuroscientists
and vision researchers achieve millisecond accurate stimulus
presentation, synchronization, TTL event marking/TTL triggering
and reaction time measurement in their computer-based
experiments. Ask yourself are you:
Poorly controlled psychology experiments can lead to replication failure, spurious results and questionable conclusions. Millisecond timing error affects your work even when you use an experiment generator like E-Prime, SuperLab, Inquisit, Presentation, Paradigm, OpenSesame or PsychoPy etc. Online and offline experiments are equally prone to errors.
You should not be taken in by the suggestion that you simply need to run more trials or that errors can be corrected statistically. You should aim for as near zero millisecond timing error as possible on your own equipment with your own experiment scripts.If you are a psychologist, neuroscientist or
vision researcher who uses a computer to run
experiments and reports results in units of a
millisecond we can help you answer YES!
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