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
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