Online psychological Testing and Experimentation
Neurotast is a company founded by psychological researchers and programmers. We help you to take advantage of the internet for research, assessment and diagnosis and to achieve excellence in experimental research. We write useful (and dare we say great?) programs for psychological experiments and develop online experiments.
What we care about
We are psychological researchers and programmers
- who care about achieving excellence in research and assessment
- who want researchers and clinicians to take advantage of the new opportunities offered by the Internet
- who care about making excellent programs and frameworks for psychological experiments
- who want to help beginning programmers to develop their own online experiments
- We are fanatic about making sure our products run smoothly and our basic frameworks is rock solid.
- We keep up with the latest Internet technologies and security threats, because we are fascinated by by the rapid developments. This is a good thing, because now our clients don’t have to worry about all of this.
- Psychology as a science has been under some distress in the past few years, with hard-to-replicate experiments, cases of outright fraude and other examples of questionable research practices. We aim to stimulate the ‘best practice’ of doing research. We cannot enforce honesty, but we can stimulate experimenters to take advantage of NeuroTask as a platform for easy sharing of experiments, data, and materials.
PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS ONLINE
For clinicians and their patients
- Provide immediate and clear test results for high-quality diagnoses
- Free clinicians to focus more on the patient
- Save time and money (and trees!)
- Can easily be applied in research and in clinical trials
- Make rarely used tests easier to publish as well as application of tests in remote areas
NEUROTASK SCRIPTING
- Program an online experiment within an hour!
- … for free or for a fee
- Liberates students and researchers from the slings and arrows of Internet-based programming
- … without limiting expert programmers
- Sell or buy high-quality stimuli and scripts through the Task Store
CUSTOM RESEARCH PORTAL
- For psychological and medical research
- May include test batteries with existing tests or custom-built ones
- Provide a complete solution for testing patients and subjects at home
- Great platforms for running clinical trials
- Let you focus on what you do best: research. We’ll do the rest
How we got here
In 1999, Prof. Jaap Murre’s research group at the University of Amsterdam was one of the first in the world to use the Internet for online psychological experiments.
In the past fifteen years we have learned that most students and researchers in psychology have a very hard time learning to program online experiments, typically taking about six months to master this.
To share our experience with others, we founded a company that develops platforms and tools for online experimentation and clinical testing.
Several of our projects involved neuropsycholocal tests. On the basis of these experiences, we believe that Internet-based testing is now suitable for the clinic, if tests are done under close supervision of the clincian.
“Programming your own online experiment from scratch is like writing an entire word processing program, just to edit a few letters”.
Jaap Murre
co-Founder NeuroTask