Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China.
School of Foreign Languages, Fuzhou University of International Studies and Trade, Fuzhou, 350202, China.
Behav Res Methods. 2023 Dec;55(8):4419-4436. doi: 10.3758/s13428-022-02025-w. Epub 2023 Mar 22.
The self-paced reading paradigm has been popular and widely used in psycholinguistic research for several decades. The tool described in this paper, FAB (Forward and Backward reading), is a tool created to hopefully and maximally reduce the coding demands and simplify the operation costs for experimental researchers and clinical researchers who are doing experimental work, in their designing, coding, implementing, and analyzing self-paced reading tasks. Its basis in web languages (HTML, JavaScript) also promotes experimental implementation and material sharing in our era of open science. In addition, FAB has a unique forward-and-backward mode that can track regressive-like behaviors that are usually only recordable using eye-tracking or mouse-tracking equipment. In this paper, the specific application and usage of FAB is demonstrated in one laboratory and two online validation experiments. We hope this free and open-sourced tool can benefit research in a diverse range of contexts where self-paced reading is desirable.
自定步调阅读范式在心理语言学研究中已经流行和广泛应用了几十年。本文中描述的工具，FAB（向前和向后阅读），是为了希望和最大限度地减少编码需求，简化实验研究人员和临床研究人员在进行实验工作时的操作成本而创建的工具，在设计、编码、实施和分析自定步调阅读任务时。它基于网络语言（HTML、JavaScript），也促进了开放科学时代的实验实施和材料共享。此外，FAB 具有独特的向前和向后模式，可以跟踪通常只能使用眼动追踪或鼠标追踪设备记录的回溯样行为。在本文中，FAB 的具体应用和使用在一个实验室和两个在线验证实验中进行了演示。我们希望这个免费的开源工具可以在各种需要自定步调阅读的情况下为研究带来益处。
