odml-terminologies/v1.0/experiment/psychophysics.xml

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  <repository>http://portal.g-node.org/odml/terminologies/v1.0/terminologies.xml</repository>
  <version>1.0</version>
  <date>2011-01-21</date>

  <section>
    <type>experiment/psychophysics</type>
    <name>Psychophysics</name>
    <definition>Properties for describing an psychophysical experiment.</definition>

    <property>
      <name>Task</name>
      <value>
        <type>string</type>
      </value>
      <definition>The task the subjects have to do like "discrimination" between different stimuli, "detection" of a
        stimulus etc...
      </definition>
    </property>

    <property>
      <name>Paradigm</name>
      <value>
        <type>string</type>
      </value>
      <definition>The experimental paradigm e.g. Two-alternative-forced-choice, Three-alternative-forced-choice.
      </definition>
    </property>

    <property>
      <name>SubjectKnowledge</name>
      <value>
        <type>string</type>
      </value>
      <definition>Was the subject "naive", "trained", or "instructed"?</definition>
    </property>

    <property>
      <name>TrainingTrials</name>
      <value>
        <type>int</type>
      </value>
      <definition>The number of trials used for training of the experimental subject.</definition>
    </property>

    <property>
      <name>TrainingDuration</name>
      <value>
        <type>float</type>
        <unit>h</unit>
      </value>
      <definition>The training duration.</definition>
    </property>

    <property>
      <name>SubjectInstruction</name>
      <value>
        <type>text</type>
      </value>
      <definition>The instructions given to the subjects.</definition>
    </property>

    <property>
      <name>definition</name>
      <value>
        <type>text</type>
      </value>
      <definition>A definition of the conducted experiment.</definition>
    </property>

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