Subject: Re: tapping hardware & software From: Mohinish <mohinish.s@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:12:28 -0400 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Hi Daniele, you could also look at Psyscope X. It is freeware. http://psy.ck.sissa.it/ It's Mac-only, but has good timing accuracy and fairly easy to use. They also have a very responsive user group. I should say though - it's not COMPLETELY straightforward to ensure very very precise timing - but there is a lot of info on the website for sound timings. You could play sounds, and collect all keypresses time-locked to the start of the sounds. For analysis. you could use the output (key-press times) from Psyscope and use these to markup the sound files using Praat (http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/ ) which is also freeware. Mo On Mar 24, 2011, at 4:32 AM, daniele schon wrote: > Dear all, > I am trying to think to a simple and cheap solution to record > children in a tapping task (eg along with a metronome or a piece of > music). > I have up to now found several solutions commonly used, but none of > them is cheap. For instance, using a software such as Presentation > to send the auditory stimulus and record with the space bar > (requires Presentation/E-Prime license), or using Cakewalk and a > tapping pad (requires Cakewalk license and a tapping pad). > So I would be glad if you could share your advice on the "optimal" > solution, optimizing the real cost (in euros), the precision (in > milliseconds) and the other cost (the hours I'll spend analyzing > data, for instance recording the tapping on a microphone ...). > > my warmest regards > daniele > > -- > Daniele Schön > Equipe Langage, Musique et Motricité > Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Méditerranée > C.N.R.S, 31, Chemin Joseph-Aiguier > 13402 Marseille Cedex 20, France > Tel: 0033 (0) 4 91 16 41 30 > Fax: 0033 (0) 4 91 16 44 98 > > http://www.incm.cnrs-mrs.fr/pperso/danieleschon.php > > I CHOOSE PEACE