Limiting unwanted cues via random rove applied to the yes-no and multiple-alternative forced choice paradigms
1Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. hdai@email.arizona.edu
Abstract:
When a random rove is used in a perceptual task to control the influence of an unwanted cue that may confound the decision strategy of primary interest, the effectiveness of the rove is determined by its range. Green [Profile Analysis (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1988)] provided a formula which allows experimenters to determine the roving range required to ensure that the listeners relying on the unwanted cue cannot exceed a pre-defined percentage of correct responses in a two-interval, two-alternative forced-choice experiment. Here, Green's analysis is extended to the yes-no and m-alternative, forced-choice paradigms (m>2).
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