Online timing: Why not?

Abstract

We examine participants' ability to accurately produce durations online, and their subjective ratings of performance. Given the push tso move students online, it is necessary to transition to online experiments. However, this comes comes certain challenges. Therefore, we performed a duration production task in which participants produced, then rated the accuracy of these productions. Generally, results support the capacity for duration production to be moved online. Further, participants are at least partially aware of the accuracy of their productions, though their estimates varied. However, a caveat to this is that duration productions were slightly longer than the target duration.

Keywords

• Duration production
• Online methods
• Self-reported interval timing