Smartphones find niche in human behaviour tests
Researchers are using innovative tools to perform psychological experiments a lot faster than they used to.
Experts believe the number of smartphone users worldwide will top the 1 billion mark by 2013.
Now an international team of scientists has taken advantage of smartphone technology to examine the mental processes involved in how humans remember, think, speak and solve problems.
Presented in the journal PLoS ONE, the findings demonstrate how these tiny tools can dramatically change cognitive science research.
The study was funded in part by the O-CODE (‘Cracking the orthographic code’) project, which has clinched a European Research Council (ERC) grant worth EUR 2.2 million under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
