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Compleat Reaction Timer v.3.5 Across (major) browsers, Jan 2012 (1 or 2 kinks to go...) To build timed language processing instruments, with or without priming	Recent Mac OS Safari compliant (Feb 2010) + FF/Chrome (Jan 2012)	Get more non-words (Fr+Eng)
Learners/subjects make timed choices about which of two categories (real word-non-word, correct-incorrect, animate-inanimate, etc) randomized language units (words, phrases, sentences) belong in.

1. Formulate the choice as a Yes-No Question
2. Load inputs

Tell S's the question and how to answer it (see Demos =>)

Put Yes words here (Ss type "1" to answer Yes to these words).

Put No words here (Ss type "3" to answer No to these words).

DEMOS
No-Prime

Prime

Demos are briefly explained here. Demos are auto-loading; new or modified inputs load with "New Run/New Load"

3. Try it.

With fingers over 1,2,& 3 -
Type 1 for YES
Type 3 for NO
Type 2 for NEXT WORD

5. Save instrument when built to own computer using File > Save As > Webpage HTML Only
(Saves as single file; JS functions off-line; session feedback does not appear; cumulative results go to screen bottom.)

Coded in PERL & JS by Tom Cobb, DDL/UQAM, v.3.3, 2011 (with clearer yes-no explanation; output includes errors; models not limited to word-nonword (see animate-inanimate) or to single words (see syntax prime).