How to record two simultaneous key responses? (using Psychtoolbox)
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In my experiment design, a pair of participants should press different keys (one should press 'z', the other should press '/' on the same keyboard) to respond to the signal appearing on the same screen. But I want to know how to record two different key responses with very short time intevals.
Hope I can get some advice on how to fix the code below:
while true
[~,~,keyCode]=KbCheck;
if keyCode(KbName('z'))
endtime1=GetSecs
end
end
while true
[~,~,keyCode]=KbCheck;
if keyCode(KbName('/'))
endtime2=GetSecs
end
i=i+1;
break;
end
3 Comments
Walter Roberson
on 27 Nov 2018
what if the / is pressed first ? the second person might not realize you are waiting for them to press it again
SOJIN YU
on 27 Nov 2018
Walter Roberson
on 27 Nov 2018
in any experiment in which people are expected to do something at the same time then either person might perform the action first. Your code outline discards all inputs until it sees one particular one and then discards all inputs until it sees the other. If the second person types first your code outline would discard it because it discards everything until it sees the character expected for the first .
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