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Evaluation of Reaction Time During Asynchronous Oddball Paradigm

Elif Uğurgöl1✉,
Demet Yeşilbaş2,
Miray Altınkaynak3,
Turgay Batbat4,
Ayşegül Güven5,
Nazan Dolu6,
Esra Demirci7,
Meltem İzzetoğlu8
1Erciyes University
2Erciyes University
3Erciyes University
4Erciyes University
5Erciyes University
6Medipol University
7Erciyes University
8Villanova University
Published:October 31, 2024
DOI: 10.56038/ejrnd.v4i3.475
Vol. 4, No. 3

Abstract

Reaction time, defined as the time between the presentation of a stimulus and the response to that stimulus, is widely used for evaluating cognitive functions. Prolonged reaction time is associated with delayed neuronal activity. The type, complexity and length of the stimulus affect reaction time. This study aimed to investigate whether there were differences in reaction time in the auditory and visual oddball paradigms, which are frequently used in cognitive studies and to examine the effect of prolonged task duration on reaction time. The study was conducted on 19 male healthy university students aged between 18-23 years.  A dual-task with an oddball paradigm was applied to the participants. The paradigm consisted of 160 stimuli including 32 auditory targets, 32 visual targets and 96 standard stimuli. The participants were asked to press buttons as soon as they perceive the target stimuli. Reaction time of participants to each target was calculated automatically. The reaction time for both tasks compared statistically and it was observed that visual reaction time was significantly longer than auditory reaction time (p= 0,042). In addition, to examine the effect of task duration on reaction time, the first ten and last ten target stimuli were investigated in both tasks. It was observed that the reaction time was prolonged and errors increased towards the end of the task (p<0,01). As a result, this study demonstrated that auditory reaction time was shorter than visual reaction time, and revealed that the type and length of the stimulus should be considered in reaction time studies.

Keywords
Reaction TimeAsynchronous Oddball ParadigmNumber of TrialsVisual StimulusAuditory Stimulus

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Uğurgöl, E., Yeşilbaş, D., Altınkaynak, M., Batbat, T., Güven, A., Dolu, N., Demirci, E., İzzetoğlu, M. (2024). Evaluation of Reaction Time During Asynchronous Oddball Paradigm. *The European Journal of Research and Development*, 4(3), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.56038/ejrnd.v4i3.475

Bibliographic Info

JournalThe European Journal of Research and Development
Volume4
Issue3
Pages1–10
PublishedOctober 31, 2024
eISSN2822-2296