Re: Solutions for sending triggers in an AEP (EEG) experiment?

[David L Woods <dlwoods@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Somewhat dated test results of the timing characteristics of inexpensive 
sound cards can be found at
http://www.neurobs.com/presentation/hardware_corner/sound_cards/test_results.

For better quality cards, delays between the parallel port trigger range 
from 0.3-0.5 ms (mean), with a variance (time jitter) of less than 0.1 
ms.  This is good enough for most AEPs (except perhaps the cochlear 
microphonic or ABRs) provided that you correct for the mean delay.

David Woods

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