Trial number cheating
Trial number cheating
Not that I've found myself doing this, but it seems possible to use the trial number (??) displayed to the top-right as a trick. Perhaps this should only be displayed after the fact?
jimmydean9 | 4 years ago
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Other ways to "cheat": by using the feedback you can use memory of one modality to cue the other. You can remember "there was a koo in the bottom left spot" and when you get the feedback that the last koo was correct visually, then you've got a high probability that it is also correct auditorily.
The instant feedback can also be used for resetting when you get confused as to the ordering of things. Perhaps an option is to remove modality specific feedback, and just say if you did each trial (at the end of it) correctly. For the previously articulated reason, you should say only at the last moment whether the trial was correct or not, regardless of whether the person gave feedback (though, I must admit it is nice to get the instant feedback while doing the training ... it's still possible that a waiting period could be advantageous. I mean, the one-armed bandit, and scratch-and-win lotto tix, don't provide absolutely instant gratification).
The instant feedback can also be used for resetting when you get confused as to the ordering of things. Perhaps an option is to remove modality specific feedback, and just say if you did each trial (at the end of it) correctly. For the previously articulated reason, you should say only at the last moment whether the trial was correct or not, regardless of whether the person gave feedback (though, I must admit it is nice to get the instant feedback while doing the training ... it's still possible that a waiting period could be advantageous. I mean, the one-armed bandit, and scratch-and-win lotto tix, don't provide absolutely instant gratification).
jimmydean9 | 4 years ago
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I just use a little notepad and write down the stimuli as they come and I have a sliding ruler that tells me what the N-back input was. I thought that's what everyone was doing.
ilikebutts | 4 years ago
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