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Supported Research Methods

What types of studies does FindingFive support?

FindingFive researchers come from a variety of research domains in the social, behavioral, and cognitive sciences including memory, attention, language, learning, and decision making.

These researchers have used FindingFive to conduct research employing a variety of tasks. Here are just a few examples:

  • Artificial language learning
  • Self-paced reading and listening
  • Mouse tracking and Visual World
  • Alternative Forced Choice (AFC, and variations thereof)
  • AXB (and variations thereof)
  • Free response, written (text) or spoken (audio)
  • Confidence ratings
  • …and much more!

Our modular Study Grammar allows you to combine stimuli, responses, trial templates, and a blocks together in creative ways, making a wide array of study designs possible.

What types of randomization patterns does FindingFive support?

FindingFive supports everything from simple “fixed” or “random” orders to more complex ordering patterns based on custom attributes (such as "ascending", "descending", "pseudorandom", etc.).

These ordering patterns exist at two levels: (1) the trial template and (2) the block, allowing for highly custom trial patterns. For example, trials can be ordered by a particular attribute at the trial template level, but then be sampled randomly from across different trial templates at the block level.

What types of stimuli does FindingFive support?

FindingFive supports a variety of stimulus types, including the following “static” types:

And the following “dynamic” stimulus types, which are broken down into individual tokens to present to participants automatically or in self-paced fashion:

All stimuli include properties for custom control, such as "delay", "duration", and "barrier" properties that control the timing of items, useful for controlling the Inter-Stimulus Interval (ISI).

What types of responses does FindingFive support?

FindingFive supports a variety of response types, including the following “active” types, which are typically visible and require participant interaction:

And the following “passive” types, which are typically invisible, collecting data passively with or without direct interaction from the participant:

All responses include properties for custom control, depending on the specific type of response.

Can I run longitudinal studies on FindingFive?

Absolutely!

FindingFive supports a variety of study eligibility criteria, including prerequisite participation in one study session before becoming eligible for another. This can be used to set up arbitrarily long study chains for longitudinal studies. There is even a feature for ensuring that participants remain in the same group (a.k.a. condition or list) across these study chains.

Of course, FindingFive also allows you to set up anti-prerequisites and demographic filters to exclude participants based on past participation or demographic data. All of these eligibility criteria are intuitively defined when you set up a new session of your FindingFive study.