https://github.com/blackjar72/digit-span-tester
An automated working memory test for cognative and neuroscience research
https://github.com/blackjar72/digit-span-tester
dead-project psychology-experiments
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An automated working memory test for cognative and neuroscience research
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/blackjar72/digit-span-tester
- Owner: BlackJar72
- License: gpl-2.0
- Created: 2016-02-24T22:30:18.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2019-04-03T22:02:22.000Z (over 6 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-16T22:16:50.423Z (9 months ago)
- Topics: dead-project, psychology-experiments
- Language: Java
- Homepage:
- Size: 1.01 MB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: license.txt
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# Digit Span Tester
This is an old and dead / discontinued project from several years ago. I don't plan to update this. The reason it is here is for sharing purposes -- in case anyone, for whatever reason, would like to fork the project to add features they need of fix problems they have. That is it. I have not worked on this in years, and do not plan to start again. This was actually a learning project, and only the second GUI / desktop app I ever made; I thought back to may days as a student and imagined something that might have been useful in a lab I was in and made it. My lack of experience at the time should be a warning, I didn't really know what I was doing, and this can be very buggy and the code is kind of a mess.
The code is not the cleanest as I was far less skiled at the time, and the sound system is kind of a mess (and breaks under Linux, and possibly other *nix variant such as Mac, maybe even under newer versions of Windows); it worked find for me in Windows XP.
Binary jars, zipped versions of the source, and older versions can be found at:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/digitspantester/
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This was created to perform automated digit span tests to evaluate on working memory function, especially in cognitive / neuro research. I hope to reduce practice effects and eliminate the need to use clinical assessments in research settings. Requires Java 7 or newer. Note that this is a research tool, and was not intended (and not evaluated) for clinical assessment.
FINAL VERSION: If you want more features, download the source and hack it yourself.
Ethics Note: Since this does not diagnose anything, label results as normal/abnormal, contain pre-made stimuli or anything from a published assessment, and neither tries to teach the task nor seems to do so (as some commercial products claim to do) I believe it is safe and acceptable in the public domain. (If this were not true, it wouldn't be here.)