ANT (Attention Network Test)

This module implements the ANT (Attention Network Test) in PsychoPy2

Use

To use this class, do something like the following:

from ant import ANTExp # or some such

# Create the ANT Experimental class
exp = ANTExp(mon, win, winsize, refresh, globalClock, startTime, alog)

# Show the instructions to the user
noPractice = exp.displayInstructions()

# Run the practice block
exp.practiceBlock():

# Run the real experiment as 3*2 runs
for r in range(6):
    if r%2 == 0:
        if exp.displayText("Starting experimental block %d of 3\nHit any key when ready to start." % (r/2+1), showLine=False):
            break
        core.wait(1)

    block = exp.fullExperiment()

    if block == None:
        break
    if allData == None:
        allData = block
    else:
        allData = np.concatenate((allData, block))

# do something with allData (or use the logfiles, that log ;-separated experimental data)

There is a working example in the testant.py file.

For a full description of the original experiment, see:

Jin Fan, Bruce D. McCandliss, Tobias Sommer, Amir Raz, and Michael I. Posner:
"Testing the Efficiency and Independence of Attentional Networks"
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 14:3, pp. 340-347 (2002)

Quoting

If you use this for your research, I would appreciate either a citation to this article:

Bækgaard, Per, Michael Kai Petersen, and Jakob Eg Larsen.
"Assessing Levels of Attention using Low Cost Eye Tracking"
(To appear in proceedings from the Human Computer Interaction International 2016 by Springer).

which is currently available as a preprint:

Bækgaard, Per, Michael Kai Petersen, and Jakob Eg Larsen. 
"Assessing Levels of Attention using Low Cost Eye Tracking." 
arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.05497 (2015).

or a reference to the GitHub repository

https://github.com/baekgaard/ant

Licence

Created by Per Baekgaard / pgba@dtu.dk / baekgaard@b4net.dk, September 2015

Licensed under the MIT License:

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