Stairs4Words: Spearman-Brown split-half reliability = 0.83 (N = 744)
Antonym production: Cronbach's Alpha = 0.48 (N = 748)
Idiom recognition: Cronbach's Alpha = 0.34 (N = 748)
Spelling test: Cronbach's Alpha = 0.76 (N = 747)
Author recognition test: Cronbach's Alpha = 0.94 (N = 744)
Prescriptive grammar test: Cronbach's Alpha = 0.65 (N = 748)
N: sample size
Auditory simple reaction time test: Cronbach's Alpha = 0.98 (N = 747)
Auditory choice reaction time test: Cronbach's Alpha = 0.98 (N = 742)
Letter comparison test: Cronbach's Alpha = 0.97 (N = 739)
Visual simple reaction time test: Cronbach's Alpha = 0.94 (N = 746)
Visual choice reaction time test: Cronbach's Alpha = 0.95 (N = 747)
N: sample size
Digit span (forward): Cronbach's Alpha = 0.71 (N = 746)
Digit span (backward): Cronbach's Alpha = 0.74 (N = 744)
Corsi block clicking (forward): Cronbach's Alpha = 0.66 (N = 743)
Corsi block clicking (backward): Cronbach's Alpha = 0.68 (N = 745)
N = sample size
Picture naming: Cronbach's Alpha = 0.95 (N = 707)
Rapid automatized naming: Cronbach's Alpha = 0.95 (N = 739)
Verbal fluency (categories): Spearman-Brown split-half reliability = 0.66 (N = 729)
Verbal fluency (letters): Spearman-Brown split-half reliability = 0.69 (N = 730)
Maximal speech rate: Spearman-Brown split-half reliability = 0.91 (N = 719)
N = sample size
Phrase generation: Cronbach's Alpha = 0.99 (N = 727)
Sentence generation structured: Cronbach's Alpha = 0.97 (N = 660)
Sentence generation unstructured (proportion correct): Cronbach's Alpha = 0.58 (N = 648)
Sentence generation unstructured (proportion passive): Cronbach's Alpha = 0.71 (N = 647)
Sentence generation unstructured (mean speechrate): Cronbach's Alpha = 0.96 (N = 648)
Spontaneous speech (number of words): Cronbach's Alpha = 0.89 (N = 745)
Spontaneous speech (mattr): Cronbach's Alpha = 0.62 (N = 745)
Spontaneous speech (speech-silence ratio): Cronbach's Alpha = 0.88 (N = 745)
Spontaneous speech (number of syllables per second): Cronbach's Alpha = 0.90 (N = 745)
N = sample size
Monitoring in noise in sentences: Cronbach's Alpha = 0.74 (N = 722)
Verb semantics activation during sentence comprehension: Cronbach's Alpha = 0.94 (N = 738)
Gender cue activation during sentence comprehension: Cronbach's Alpha = 0.95 (N = 721)
Self-paced reading: Cronbach's Alpha = 0.99 (N = 704)
N = sample size
After completing the last research session, you can delete the research program. For Windows users this is the HealthyBrain_Windows.zip folder, for Mac users the HealthyBrain_MAC.zip folder.
You can also remove the 'roaming data' (app support). These files can usually be found in the following folder (Note! < your username > must be your own username!):
For Windows: C:\Users\<your username>\AppData\Roaming\healthybrain_electron_production
For Mac: Users/<your username>
The research program is an .exe or .dmg file that sometimes gives such messages when starting the program. We guarantee that it is a safe program.
Before completing a sessions that contains one or multiple speech production tests, you will complete a short audio and microphone test. With this test we want to check whether your microphone works properly and whether the quality of the sound recordings is sufficient. This test consists of two parts. First, we ask you to say four words. We make recordings of these words and next present these recordings to you in random order. Your task is to indicate with a mouse click which of the four spoken words you heard. If you identified all words correctly (i.e., the recording and audio playback quality is satisfying) you can start the session.
Possible problems:
a) The recording has failed (you cannot hear anything or the recording is so noisy that you cannot or barely understand it).
There is a problem with the microphone. Make sure your computer's internal or external microphone is turned on. The use of the microphone may need to be explicitly allowed under “Settings”. Repeat the test. In particular, users of macOS 10_14 sometimes experience issues related to the microphone test; the use of another operating system is therefore recommended. If the problem persists, please contact us.
b) The recording quality is good (you hear yourself back), but you do not pass the test.
You probably clicked on the wrong word for one or more recordings. Please repeat the test.
The program gives an error message when the internet connection is lost. In most cases, once the connection is restored, you can pick up where you left off. If this is not the case, please contact us.
Make sure you don't have any other browsers or apps (like YouTube) open while taking the tests, as this slows down your internet connection. In some tests data upload may take a little longer. Immediately after the last task or after pressing 'Send results', you may have to wait about one minute before the next task starts. Do not press the button again, but wait patiently. Especially for the speech production tests, it may take a little longer to upload the individual recordings. This is because the audio files are relatively large (up to 1 minute). In this case, you may see a white screen for a short time. Please be patient and wait.
If the upload takes longer than a few minutes, you can close the program (Windows: press ALT + F4; Mac: Cmd + Q) and open it again. The program will then continue where you left off. Should this problem occur repeatedly, please contact us.
If a researcher loses any of the two keys, they need to contact us using the email address provided on the IDLaS-NL website. Our administrators have access to the database that links email addresses to the corresponding study and researcher keys and the chain of Frinex experiments. Researchers will need to provide the email address used for registering their study as well as the experiments included in the study to verify that they are authorized to get access to the keys. Upon positive evaluation, our administrators will send them both keys anew.
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