Self-paced reading with comprehension questions

  • Updated on 14th May 2025

This experiment consists of the following parts:

  1. Ethics agreement
  2. Participant metadata recording
  3. Instructions
  4. Exercise
  5. Transition to main experiment
  6. Main experiment
  7. Aim explanation and goodbye

The task is to read the sentence incrementally and answer an optional comprehension question.

Self-paced reading experiment

Running the experiment

To run the experiment, clone or download the repository from GitHub repository containing the experiment files or download them directly.

GitHub

To download the files from GitHub:

  1. Click on Code and Download ZIP.
  2. Unpack the ZIP archive.
  3. Create a new empty project on the PCIbex farm of your choosing.
  4. Upload the files from the archive:
    • From chunk includes to Resources
    • From data_includes to Scripts
    • From css_includes to Aesthetics
    • from js_includes to Modules

Where to copy files from GitHub to Farm

Once uploaded, launch the experiment through PCIbex to start collecting data.

Cloning

Alternatively, use the demo links provided in the repository to test the experiment online before deploying it. The cloning function may not work because it is buggy.