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General

• Mind and Body: René Descartes to William James - an illustrated essay by Robert Wozniak, Bryn Mawr College

• Classics in the History of Psychology - a wonderful resource, the full texts on-line of "historically significant public domain documents from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines", and links to additional relevant on-line texts

• A Literature Review on Reaction Time - an excellent and straightforward summary, with references by Robert Kosinski, Clemson University

• Mental Olympics --- some discussion of the usefulness and limitations of the "reaction time" methodology, from a course on Cognition by Charles Schmidt, State University of New Jersey at Rutgers

• Museum of the History of Reaction Time Research, Montclair State University

• Reaction Time --- from Visual Expert: Perception, Attention, Memory, a discussion of reaction times in the context of driving and the law

• Sleep Impacts Reaction Time as Much as Alcohol --- effects of sleep deprivation/alcohol on reaction times, Stanford University news release

Having fun with reaction times on-line

• Test Your Reaction Time! ----actually not quite "reaction time" but rather how good can be at anticipating the green light "go" of a drag car start, simple but fun

• Fastball Reaction Time --- Very nice Shockwave implementation of a batter trying to hit a pitch .... how long after you see the ball leaves the pitchers hand before you can swing? From the Exploratorium.

• Reaction Time Java Applet ----- Java simulation of braking time with red light

• Measuring and Recording Reaction Time Under Different Conditions ---- a little different, click on target which may appear at different locations, javascript, from Dr. Sanders' Introductory Psychology Lab

• t-test for Reaction Time Experiment --- Slightly different, because requires movement from start button, but includes materials to do on line calculations of statistical significance. from the Biology Department, Kean University of New Jersey

• Reaction Time. This is one of two simple Javascript reaction programs which are widely available on the web .... includes script and instructions for incorporating into a web page.

• Reaction Time Too --- Here's the other Javascript reaction program widely used on the web.

Non-computer based reaction time classroom activities

• Measuring Reaction Times --- class yardstick exercise, Science House, NC State U

• Reaction Time -- yardstick exercise, with distance/time table

Classic reaction time papers available on-line

• James McKeen Cattell (1886) -- "The Time Taken Up by Cerebral Operations, Parts 1 and 2", Mind 11: 220-242

• James McKeen Cattell (1886) -- "The Time Taken Up by Cerebral Operations, Parts 1 and 2", Mind 11: 377-392

• James McKeen Cattell (1887) -- "The Time Taken Up by Cerebral Operations, Parts 1 and 2", Mind 11: 524-538

• James Mckeen Cattell (1888) -- "The Psychological Laboratory at Leipsic", Mind 13: 37-51.

• James Rowland Angell and Addison W. Moore (1896) --- James Rowland Angell and Addison W. Moore. "Studies from the Psychological Laboratory of the University of Chicago: 1. Reaction-Time: A Study in Attention and Habit." Psychological Review 3, (1896): 245-258.

• James Rowland Angell (1903) -- James Rowland Angell. "The Relation of Structural and Functional Psychology to Philosophy", Decennial Publications of the University of Chicago First Series, Vol. 3, (1903): 55-73.

Technical Issues Related to Using Computers to Measure Reaction Time

• Notes on Reaction Times - notes on reaction time problems w/ computer measurement, from Tutorials, Faqs ... at Vision Science

• Tips: Keypress - more on computer based timing, specifically on the Macintosh, by Denis Peli, Department of Psychology, New York University

Miscellaneous

• Donders Reaction Time - downloadable software, DOS

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