Subject: Re: Seeking citation for multiple conditions interleaved adaptive tracks. From: Massimo Grassi <massimo.grassi@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:17:31 +0100 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>Leek, M. R., Hanna, T. E., & Marshall, L. (1991). An interleaved tracking procedure to monitor unstable psychometric functions. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 90, 1385. I hope this helps, m > I am conducting an experiment in which we are testing the thresholds for > 7 different conditions using a 3 down 1 up adaptive track procedure. In > order to account for slow changes in attention or fatigue, we randomly > interleave all seven condition's adaptive tracks. Every seven trials the > conditions are reshuffled, and all conditions are tested again. > > I have anecdotally been told this is a common procedure in single neuron > recording as the conditions of the neurons will drift over time. > > I was hoping someone might know of a citation for this method of cycling > through randomly interleaved conditions to account for slow changes in > the subject's attention or fatigue. > > Thanks, > Dean Pospisil > Research Assistant UW I-Labs -- http://www.psy.unipd.it/~grassi/ http://www.springer.com/978-1-4614-2196-2