From evan.j.kidd at man.ac.uk Thu Sep 2 15:50:22 2004 From: evan.j.kidd at man.ac.uk (Evan Kidd) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:50:22 +0100 Subject: E-prime and touch screens Message-ID: Dear list members, I'm currently looking to buy a touchscreen to run some experiments using e-prime. I understand that e-prime runs well with some touchscreens but not others. If anyone out there could offer some advice or recommendations I'd be really grateful. Cheers, Evan Dr Evan Kidd Research Associate Max Planck Child Study Centre Department of Psychology University of Manchester Oxford Rd Manchester M13 9PL UNITED KINGDOM Ph: +44 (0) 161 275 2594 Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 2623 http://www.psy.man.ac.uk/rstaff/kidd.htm From m.paul at bangor.ac.uk Thu Sep 2 15:59:29 2004 From: m.paul at bangor.ac.uk (Matthew Paul) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:59:29 +0100 Subject: E-prime and touch screens In-Reply-To: Message-ID: We are running E-Prime with an Iiyama Vision Master 450 19' CRT with MicroTouch / Touchware which is working fine. I think 3M now own MicroTouch: http://www.3m.com/3mtouchsystems/ Regards, matthew --------------------------------------- Matthew Paul Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience School of Psychology University of Wales, Bangor Gwynedd LL57 2AS United Kingdom www.psychology.bangor.ac.uk e-mail: m.paul at bangor.ac.uk tel: +44 1248 38 3832 fax: +44 1248 38 2599 --------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On Behalf Of Evan Kidd Sent: 02 September 2004 16:50 To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org Subject: E-prime and touch screens Dear list members, I'm currently looking to buy a touchscreen to run some experiments using e-prime. I understand that e-prime runs well with some touchscreens but not others. If anyone out there could offer some advice or recommendations I'd be really grateful. Cheers, Evan Dr Evan Kidd Research Associate Max Planck Child Study Centre Department of Psychology University of Manchester Oxford Rd Manchester M13 9PL UNITED KINGDOM Ph: +44 (0) 161 275 2594 Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 2623 http://www.psy.man.ac.uk/rstaff/kidd.htm From asa8 at leicester.ac.uk Thu Sep 2 16:02:27 2004 From: asa8 at leicester.ac.uk (Andrews, A.S.) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 17:02:27 +0100 Subject: E-prime and touch screens In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Evan I have had no problems with Iiyama touchscreens and E-Prime. There are a couple of constants that need defining (I'll dig them out if you don't see it in the Knowledgebase on the PST website). I have had problems with the screens themselves starting to fail - a ragged black line developing on one border on the Iiyama 18", and similar on other LCDs (non-touchscreen), but not with the touch part. I don't think flat panels last as long as CRTs. HTH. Best Regards Tony Andrews Senior Computer Officer School of Psychology University of Leicester University Road Leicester LE1 7RH Tel: 0116 223 1709 From: Evan Kidd Sent: Thu 02/09/2004 16:50 To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org Subject: E-prime and touch screens Dear list members, I'm currently looking to buy a touchscreen to run some experiments using e-prime. I understand that e-prime runs well with some touchscreens but not others. If anyone out there could offer some advice or recommendations I'd be really grateful. Cheers, Evan Dr Evan Kidd Research Associate Max Planck Child Study Centre Department of Psychology University of Manchester Oxford Rd Manchester M13 9PL UNITED KINGDOM Ph: +44 (0) 161 275 2594 Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 2623 http://www.psy.man.ac.uk/rstaff/kidd.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From yjang at psyc.umd.edu Thu Sep 2 20:59:10 2004 From: yjang at psyc.umd.edu (Yoonhee Jang) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:59:10 -0400 Subject: [help] at recall test Message-ID: Hello, I'm not good at E-prime yet, and I have trouble in my recall test program. I want to know whether a particular response from recall test is correct or not. The criterion is whether first three characters of a response match those of a correct answer. For example, 'apple' is a correct answer. When a person types either 'apple' or 'appel', it's correct (e.g., coding: 1). When the person does either 'apology' or 'orange', it's incorrect (e.g., coding: 0). How should I program? Any comments and help would be very much appreciated. Yoonhee From yjang at psyc.umd.edu Fri Sep 3 02:33:37 2004 From: yjang at psyc.umd.edu (Yoonhee Jang) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 22:33:37 -0400 Subject: [help] assigning words in random Message-ID: Hello, Thanks to some of you, I could solve my last problem. I appreciate it. BTW, as a beginner, I have another problem. I'd like to assign all words which are currently in one list into two sub-lists which have several attributes for each. For example, I have a list (called "WholeList"), which has an attribute (called "Word") having 24 words. The "WholeList" also has two sub-lists, one is called "ShortList" which has 4 attributes (i.e., "Short1", ... "Short4"), and the other is called "LongList" which also has 4 attributes (i.e., "Long1", ... "Long4"). Each of attribute in the "ShortList" has 2 rows, and each of attribute in the "LongList" has 4 rows. I'd like to assign 8 of 24 words of the "WholeList" into the "ShortList" (i.e., 2 words * 4 attributes) and 16 of 24 into "LongList" (i.e., 4 words * 4 attributes) in random. Would you please help me out? Any help would be very much appreciated. Yoonhee From r.l.c.mitchell at reading.ac.uk Mon Sep 6 12:54:19 2004 From: r.l.c.mitchell at reading.ac.uk (Rachel Mitchell) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 13:54:19 +0100 Subject: A better solution? Message-ID: Hi A colleague has asked if I can put the following experimental needs to the eprime community She has a list of 50 words 5 words are displayed on screen at a time going vertically down the screen There are 10 trials Easy so far! The constraints: A word must NOT appear twice on a single display screen A word must not be repeated in the 10 trials (even if on a different screen position) Within this suite of 50 words there are two target words, T1 and T2 T1 must be displayed somewhere between trials 2-5 T2 must be displayed somewhere between trials 6-9 Her question is this: Is there a better way of setting this up other than predetermining word orders and positions before eprime i.e. can eprime cope with all these constraints on its own? I look forward to your ideas! Regards rachel ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Rachel L. C. Mitchell Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology, University of Reading Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry Research Psychologist, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust Correspondence Address: School of Psychology Whiteknights Road University of Reading Reading Berkshire RG6 6AL Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8523 Direct Dial: +44 (0)118 378 7530 Fax: +44 (0)118 378 6715 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From paulj at psy.uq.edu.au Mon Sep 6 22:12:04 2004 From: paulj at psy.uq.edu.au (Paul R. Jackson) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 08:12:04 +1000 Subject: A better solution? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Rachel, I don't think that E-Prime could do this out of the box using the standard methods. These types of things are best done using inline scripts to generate trials. BUT unfortunately this requires some level of programming skills. The script could do something like: -load 48 non target words from a text file -randomise the order of the 48 words -load 2 target words from another file -insert target word 1 randomly into the word array in a position in range of 6-25 (i.e. in trial 2,3,4, or 5) -insert target word 2 randomly into the word array in a position in range of 26-45 (i.e. in trial 6,7,8,9 0r 10) -now pump 5 words of the word array, starting at word 1, into a list for each trial (i.e. trial1 = word1-5, trial2= word6-10, etc...) So summing up, E-Prime CAN do it but not easily. You will find that all these sorts of 'easy to use' packages in many areas work fine as long as you want to do what it wants you to do! Hope this was helpful. Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul R. Jackson Experimental Programmer School of Psychology University of Queensland E:paulj at psy.uq.edu.au P:3365-6713 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > -----Original Message----- > From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org > [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On Behalf Of Rachel Mitchell > Sent: Monday, 6 September 2004 10:54 PM > To: Eprime mailing list > Subject: A better solution? > > Hi > > A colleague has asked if I can put the following experimental > needs to the eprime community > > She has a list of 50 words > 5 words are displayed on screen at a time going vertically > down the screen There are 10 trials > > Easy so far! > > The constraints: > A word must NOT appear twice on a single display screen A > word must not be repeated in the 10 trials (even if on a > different screen > position) > > Within this suite of 50 words there are two target words, T1 and T2 > T1 must be displayed somewhere between trials 2-5 > T2 must be displayed somewhere between trials 6-9 > > Her question is this: > Is there a better way of setting this up other than > predetermining word orders and positions before eprime i.e. > can eprime cope with all these constraints on its own? > > I look forward to your ideas! > > Regards > rachel > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > Dr Rachel L. C. Mitchell > Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology, University of Reading > Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry Research > Psychologist, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust > > Correspondence Address: > School of Psychology > Whiteknights Road > University of Reading > Reading > Berkshire > RG6 6AL > > Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8523 > Direct Dial: +44 (0)118 378 7530 > Fax: +44 (0)118 378 6715 > -------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > From sung0015 at tc.umn.edu Tue Sep 7 16:05:12 2004 From: sung0015 at tc.umn.edu (Yung-Chi Sung) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:05:12 -0500 Subject: pause at every 50 trials in a 750-trial task? Message-ID: Dear college: I have 750 trials in my lexical decision task. I think i should have my Ss take a break every 50 trials. Is there a easy way (function/parameter) that i can do this in e-prime? I appreciate your help. Yung-Chi Sung Center for Cognitive Science University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55414 U.S.A. From asa8 at leicester.ac.uk Tue Sep 7 16:51:16 2004 From: asa8 at leicester.ac.uk (Andrews, A.S.) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 17:51:16 +0100 Subject: pause at every 50 trials in a 750-trial task? Message-ID: You can do this using an inline script and a flag For example: inline: if not (c.GetAttrib("BlockList.Sample") MOD 51 )=0 then goto carryon then (textdisplay object with "press a key after your break" with infite duration and any key input) then (Flag carryon) I would suggest you use 49 or 51 rather than 50 so that you don't pause with one trial to go! HTH Regards Tony Andrews Senior Computer Officer School of Psychology University of Leciester ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yung-Chi Sung" To: Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 5:05 PM Subject: pause at every 50 trials in a 750-trial task? > Dear college: > > I have 750 trials in my lexical decision task. I think i should have my Ss > take a break every 50 trials. Is there a easy way (function/parameter) > that i can do this in e-prime? > > I appreciate your help. > > > Yung-Chi Sung > Center for Cognitive Science > University of Minnesota > Minneapolis, MN 55414 > U.S.A. > > > From rcelind at okstate.edu Tue Sep 7 16:58:17 2004 From: rcelind at okstate.edu (Celinda M Reese) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:58:17 -0500 Subject: pause at every 50 trials in a 750-trial task? Message-ID: Return Receipt Your Re: pause at every 50 trials in a 750-trial task? document : was Celinda M Reese/psych/cas/Okstate received by: at: 09/07/2004 11:58:16 AM From anthony.zuccolotto at pstnet.com Tue Sep 7 18:12:40 2004 From: anthony.zuccolotto at pstnet.com (Tony Zuccolotto) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:12:40 -0400 Subject: pause at every 50 trials in a 750-trial task? Message-ID: You should be able to do this without writing any script. Make a block list that calls a single block procedure. On the block list set the Weight to the number of blocks you want to run (i.e. 750 trials / 50 trials per block = 15 blocks) On the block procedure create a trial list that defines all 750 trials. On the Reset/Exit tab of the Properties dialog for the trial list, set the "Exit List" option to "After 50 samples". Also verify that the "Reset at the beginning of each Run" check box is cleared and that the "Reset Sampling (Define Cycle)" criteria is set to "All samples (750)". On the block procedure (after the trial list) create a text display for the user that says something like "Now we will take a break..." and set it's duration to the amount of time you want to have them break. The key piece of this solution is that when the "Reset at the beginning of each Run" check box is cleared on a List object in E-Prime it will NOT reshuffle itself until the "Reset Sampling (Define Cycle)" criteria is met. As long as you have that set to the default of "All samples (750)" then you can re-run the list multiple times and E-Prime will just pick up the sampling where it last left off. Thus, this should shuffle your 750 stimuli once at the beginning, and then present them to the subject in groups (blocks) of 50 trials, with a break following each one. Hope that helps, Tony *** DISCLAIMER: ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE MY OWN AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THOSE OF PSYCHOLOGY SOFTWARE TOOLS *** Anthony P. Zuccolotto Vice President and Chief Operations Officer Psychology Software Tools, Inc. 2050 Ardmore Boulevard Suite 200 Pittsburgh, PA 15221-4610 Phone 412-271-5040 FAX 412-271-7077 Email anthony.zuccolotto at pstnet.com Internet http://www.pstnet.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Yung-Chi Sung [mailto:sung0015 at tc.umn.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 12:05 PM > To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org > Subject: pause at every 50 trials in a 750-trial task? > > Dear college: > > I have 750 trials in my lexical decision task. I think i should have my Ss > take a break every 50 trials. Is there a easy way (function/parameter) > that > i can do this in e-prime? > > I appreciate your help. > > > Yung-Chi Sung > Center for Cognitive Science > University of Minnesota > Minneapolis, MN 55414 > U.S.A. > From rcelind at okstate.edu Tue Sep 7 19:32:14 2004 From: rcelind at okstate.edu (Celinda M Reese) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:32:14 -0500 Subject: pause at every 50 trials in a 750-trial task? Message-ID: Return Receipt Your RE: pause at every 50 trials in a 750-trial task? document : was Celinda M Reese/psych/cas/Okstate received by: at: 09/07/2004 02:32:13 PM From yjang at psyc.umd.edu Thu Sep 9 03:03:20 2004 From: yjang at psyc.umd.edu (Yoonhee Jang) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:03:20 -0400 Subject: how to control recall-phase time for different lists Message-ID: Hello, There are two different lists - one is the short list which has 6 items and the other is the long list which has 24 items. The dependent measure is free-recall response. During the recall test, the duration of recall phase for each list should be controlled - No matter how many items have been presented (i.e., short list or long list), subjects should type their reponses within 1 minute as possible as they can. Now their task is typing a word and pressing "Enter" key to type another word or to study items of next list (i.e., pressing the key 6 times for the short list and 24 times for the long list). After a given 1 minute, the recall test has been done, and then next items will be presented. Please help me out. Thank you so much. Yoonhee From yjang at psyc.umd.edu Thu Sep 9 17:25:42 2004 From: yjang at psyc.umd.edu (Yoonhee Jang) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:25:42 -0400 Subject: file read/write Message-ID: Hello, If I'd like to read items from a text file (NOT read them from List Objects) and write responses into a text file (NOT write them into an edata file), what should I do? Any help would be much appreciated. Yoonhee From yjang at psyc.umd.edu Fri Sep 10 22:08:25 2004 From: yjang at psyc.umd.edu (Yoonhee Jang) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:08:25 -0400 Subject: free recall test Message-ID: Hello, My problem is in setting up the test list such that e-prime can record multiple entries (people typing in each word they remember -> free recall test), and furthermore scoring the accuracy of the entered words, and finally setting a timed deadline for entering (e.g., one minute to enter as many as you can remember). I know it's no problem to do these things for a single recalled item (for instance cued-recall or Peterson and Peterson recall), but e-prime doesn't seem to be set up to receive consecutive items (which are not necessarily in the studied order), and also have some sort of outer loop for timing. Do you have any ideas of how to do this in e-prime? Any suggestions are appreciated. Yoonhee From Paul.Warren at vuw.ac.nz Mon Sep 13 01:52:20 2004 From: Paul.Warren at vuw.ac.nz (Paul Warren) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:52:20 +1200 Subject: presenting sentences containing words in bold Message-ID: Can anyone suggest a method for presenting individual sentence texts in which one word in each sentence is in bold? The only solution I have come up with so far is to create the sentences in a word processing package and copy them individually to bitmap files to display as pictures, one for each trial. However this is proving to be extremely tedious for a large number of sentence files. I thought I could have a set of text strings for sections of the sentence, entered as individual attributes in a trial list. One of these attributes would have font set to bold, and the sections could be presented instantaneously. But I haven't been able to work out how to determine automatically the position of each subsequent bit of text, given that the sentence strings have variable lengths and the word in bold has variable locations through the string. Dr Paul Warren Senior Lecturer in Linguistics School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Victoria University of Wellington PO Box 600 Wellington New Zealand tel +64 4 463 5631/5600 fax +64 4 463 5604 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michael.mcguire at washburn.edu Mon Sep 13 02:08:19 2004 From: michael.mcguire at washburn.edu (Michael J. McGuire, Ph.D.) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:08:19 -0500 Subject: presenting sentences containing words in bold In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I believe the only way to address this is to use the slide object. Paul Warren wrote: > Can anyone suggest a method for presenting individual sentence texts > in which one word in each sentence is in bold? The only solution I > have come up with so far is to create the sentences in a word > processing package and copy them individually to bitmap files to > display as pictures, one for each trial. However this is proving to > be extremely tedious for a large number of sentence files. I thought I > could have a set of text strings for sections of the sentence, > entered as individual attributes in a trial list. One of these > attributes would have font set to bold, and the sections could be > presented instantaneously. But I haven't been able to work out how to > determine automatically the position of each subsequent bit of text, > given that the sentence strings have variable lengths and the word in > bold has variable locations through the string. > > > Dr Paul Warren > > Senior Lecturer in Linguistics > > School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies > > Victoria University of Wellington > > PO Box 600 > > Wellington > > New Zealand > > tel +64 4 463 5631/5600 > > fax +64 4 463 5604 > > -- Michael J. McGuire, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Washburn University 1700 College Avenue Topeka, KS 66621 Michael.McGuire at washburn.edu www.washburn.edu/faculty/mmcguire From a.holmes at uq.edu.au Thu Sep 16 04:40:15 2004 From: a.holmes at uq.edu.au (Anna Holmes) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:40:15 +1000 Subject: Randomise stimuli according to 2 criteria??? Message-ID: Dear fellow E-Primers, As an E-Prime rookie (with no scripting experience), I am hoping that someone may be able to help me. I am trying to create a lexical decision priming task with 2 blocks of the following stimuli: Number of trials Condition Number Condition Name Correct response (ResponseType) 12 1 Expected-related Yes (1) 12 2 Expected-unrelated Yes (1) 4 3 Unexpected-unrelated Yes (1) 4 4 Unexpected-related Yes (1) 12 5 Neutral Yes (1) 44 6 Nonword No (2) I understand that script can be written (e.g., samples - No Repeats; String Array to Populate List) such that the same type of stimulus condition is not presented on consecutive trials (e.g., another related word pair will not directly follow a related word pair). However, I am trying to work out if I can randomise my stimuli according to 2 criteria: 1.. That no condition occurs more than 3 times consecutively 2.. That no single response type occurs more than 3 times consecutively (no more than 3 yes (or no) responses in a row) I have chosen these two criteria because if I only randomise according to condition, it will likely result in strings of stimuli that require a 'yes' response as 5 of the 6 conditions call for the participant to respond 'yes'. Hope my question is clear although reasonably complicated. Look forward to any suggestions. Thanks Anna ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Anna D Holmes. BSpPath(Hons) Division of Speech Pathology School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences University of Queensland QLD 4072 Australia Phone: +61 7 3346 9726 Fax: +61 7 3365 1877 a.holmes at uq.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In-Reply-To: <009201c49ba7$4612fdf0$4bb2a8c0@helencphd1> Message-ID: Dear Anna, I've struggled with this question, too, in an experiment where we showed smoking & food-related pictures and words. We didn't want more than two stimuli in the same category (i.e., smoking-related image followed by smoking-related image), yet the selection of the stimuli was random. Now I think I would try to write a bit of script that would analyze the last two stimuli and avoid choosing the same type three times in a row, but I think that might result in a bunch at the end that would all be the same, which may cause an error. I'd be interested in other programmers' thoughts on this one. Leisha Wharfield Decision Research Eugene, Oregon, USA Anna Holmes wrote: > Dear fellow E-Primers, > > As an E-Prime rookie (with no scripting experience), I am hoping that > someone may be able to help me. > > I am trying to create a lexical decision priming task with 2 blocks of > the following stimuli: > > Number of trials > > > > Condition Number > > > > Condition Name > > > > Correct response > > (ResponseType) > > 12 > > > > 1 > > > > Expected-related > > > > Yes (1) > > 12 > > > > 2 > > > > Expected-unrelated > > > > Yes (1) > > 4 > > > > 3 > > > > Unexpected-unrelated > > > > Yes (1) > > 4 > > > > 4 > > > > Unexpected-related > > > > Yes (1) > > 12 > > > > 5 > > > > Neutral > > > > Yes (1) > > 44 > > > > 6 > > > > Nonword > > > > No (2) > > > I understand that script can be written (e.g., samples - No Repeats; > String Array to Populate List) such that the same type of stimulus > condition is not presented on consecutive trials (e.g., another > related word pair will not directly follow a related word pair). > > However, I am trying to work out if I can randomise my stimuli > according to 2 criteria: > > 1. That no condition occurs more than 3 times consecutively > 2. That no single response type occurs more than 3 times > consecutively (no more than 3 yes (or no) responses in a row) > > I have chosen these two criteria because if I only randomise according > to condition, it will likely result in strings of stimuli that require > a 'yes' response as 5 of the 6 conditions call for the participant to > respond 'yes'. > > Hope my question is clear although reasonably complicated. > > Look forward to any suggestions. > > Thanks > Anna > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Anna D Holmes. BSpPath(Hons) > Division of Speech Pathology > School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences > University of Queensland > QLD 4072 Australia > Phone: +61 7 3346 9726 > Fax: +61 7 3365 1877 > a.holmes at uq.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I had problems with trials in which only the non-target (without a prime) should be presented. Eventually, I edited the script with an If .. Then solution to avoid presenting the prime when the prime is 0. This worked out fine. The other problem I could not deal with. Sometimes, for non-targets, the Target.ACC indicates 0 whereas (correctly) no hit was made. This should be 1 (correct). Secondly, not on all trials the CRESP is {SPACE}. Sometimes nothing appears. What should I do, for I guess that the problem with th ACC being 0 instead of 1 is because I want to collect no response on some trials. Who could help me with this problem. Marijn Lijffijt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We will consider individuals who will complete their degrees by the end of 2004. Preference will be given to individuals who have some background in UNIX, MATLAB, database management, and a statistical package, such as SPSS or SAS. Interested individuals should send a cover letter and a resume or a curriculum vitae to Leslie Mitrik by email (mitrikla at upmc.edu ) or regular mail (Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine Program, 3811 O¹Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213). For more information, call 412-246-5966. From tab2006 at med.cornell.edu Tue Sep 28 22:29:02 2004 From: tab2006 at med.cornell.edu (Tracy Butler) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:29:02 -0400 Subject: visual working memory paradigm Message-ID: This is a request from a colleague: Does anyone have a visual working memory paradigm (N back) programmed for IFIS with pictures or letters? Thank you, Linda Please respond to laheier at med.cornell.edu From evan.j.kidd at man.ac.uk Thu Sep 2 15:50:22 2004 From: evan.j.kidd at man.ac.uk (Evan Kidd) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:50:22 +0100 Subject: E-prime and touch screens Message-ID: Dear list members, I'm currently looking to buy a touchscreen to run some experiments using e-prime. I understand that e-prime runs well with some touchscreens but not others. If anyone out there could offer some advice or recommendations I'd be really grateful. Cheers, Evan Dr Evan Kidd Research Associate Max Planck Child Study Centre Department of Psychology University of Manchester Oxford Rd Manchester M13 9PL UNITED KINGDOM Ph: +44 (0) 161 275 2594 Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 2623 http://www.psy.man.ac.uk/rstaff/kidd.htm From m.paul at bangor.ac.uk Thu Sep 2 15:59:29 2004 From: m.paul at bangor.ac.uk (Matthew Paul) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:59:29 +0100 Subject: E-prime and touch screens In-Reply-To: Message-ID: We are running E-Prime with an Iiyama Vision Master 450 19' CRT with MicroTouch / Touchware which is working fine. I think 3M now own MicroTouch: http://www.3m.com/3mtouchsystems/ Regards, matthew --------------------------------------- Matthew Paul Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience School of Psychology University of Wales, Bangor Gwynedd LL57 2AS United Kingdom www.psychology.bangor.ac.uk e-mail: m.paul at bangor.ac.uk tel: +44 1248 38 3832 fax: +44 1248 38 2599 --------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On Behalf Of Evan Kidd Sent: 02 September 2004 16:50 To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org Subject: E-prime and touch screens Dear list members, I'm currently looking to buy a touchscreen to run some experiments using e-prime. I understand that e-prime runs well with some touchscreens but not others. If anyone out there could offer some advice or recommendations I'd be really grateful. Cheers, Evan Dr Evan Kidd Research Associate Max Planck Child Study Centre Department of Psychology University of Manchester Oxford Rd Manchester M13 9PL UNITED KINGDOM Ph: +44 (0) 161 275 2594 Fax: +44 (0) 161 275 2623 http://www.psy.man.ac.uk/rstaff/kidd.htm From asa8 at leicester.ac.uk Thu Sep 2 16:02:27 2004 From: asa8 at leicester.ac.uk (Andrews, A.S.) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 17:02:27 +0100 Subject: E-prime and touch screens In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Evan I have had no problems with Iiyama touchscreens and E-Prime. There are a couple of constants that need defining (I'll dig them out if you don't see it in the Knowledgebase on the PST website). I have had problems with the screens themselves starting to fail - a ragged black line developing on one border on the Iiyama 18", and similar on other LCDs (non-touchscreen), but not with the touch part. I don't think flat panels last as long as CRTs. HTH. 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URL: From yjang at psyc.umd.edu Thu Sep 2 20:59:10 2004 From: yjang at psyc.umd.edu (Yoonhee Jang) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 16:59:10 -0400 Subject: [help] at recall test Message-ID: Hello, I'm not good at E-prime yet, and I have trouble in my recall test program. I want to know whether a particular response from recall test is correct or not. The criterion is whether first three characters of a response match those of a correct answer. For example, 'apple' is a correct answer. When a person types either 'apple' or 'appel', it's correct (e.g., coding: 1). When the person does either 'apology' or 'orange', it's incorrect (e.g., coding: 0). How should I program? Any comments and help would be very much appreciated. Yoonhee From yjang at psyc.umd.edu Fri Sep 3 02:33:37 2004 From: yjang at psyc.umd.edu (Yoonhee Jang) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 22:33:37 -0400 Subject: [help] assigning words in random Message-ID: Hello, Thanks to some of you, I could solve my last problem. I appreciate it. BTW, as a beginner, I have another problem. I'd like to assign all words which are currently in one list into two sub-lists which have several attributes for each. For example, I have a list (called "WholeList"), which has an attribute (called "Word") having 24 words. The "WholeList" also has two sub-lists, one is called "ShortList" which has 4 attributes (i.e., "Short1", ... "Short4"), and the other is called "LongList" which also has 4 attributes (i.e., "Long1", ... "Long4"). Each of attribute in the "ShortList" has 2 rows, and each of attribute in the "LongList" has 4 rows. I'd like to assign 8 of 24 words of the "WholeList" into the "ShortList" (i.e., 2 words * 4 attributes) and 16 of 24 into "LongList" (i.e., 4 words * 4 attributes) in random. Would you please help me out? Any help would be very much appreciated. Yoonhee From r.l.c.mitchell at reading.ac.uk Mon Sep 6 12:54:19 2004 From: r.l.c.mitchell at reading.ac.uk (Rachel Mitchell) Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 13:54:19 +0100 Subject: A better solution? Message-ID: Hi A colleague has asked if I can put the following experimental needs to the eprime community She has a list of 50 words 5 words are displayed on screen at a time going vertically down the screen There are 10 trials Easy so far! The constraints: A word must NOT appear twice on a single display screen A word must not be repeated in the 10 trials (even if on a different screen position) Within this suite of 50 words there are two target words, T1 and T2 T1 must be displayed somewhere between trials 2-5 T2 must be displayed somewhere between trials 6-9 Her question is this: Is there a better way of setting this up other than predetermining word orders and positions before eprime i.e. can eprime cope with all these constraints on its own? I look forward to your ideas! Regards rachel ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Rachel L. C. Mitchell Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology, University of Reading Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry Research Psychologist, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust Correspondence Address: School of Psychology Whiteknights Road University of Reading Reading Berkshire RG6 6AL Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8523 Direct Dial: +44 (0)118 378 7530 Fax: +44 (0)118 378 6715 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From paulj at psy.uq.edu.au Mon Sep 6 22:12:04 2004 From: paulj at psy.uq.edu.au (Paul R. Jackson) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 08:12:04 +1000 Subject: A better solution? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Rachel, I don't think that E-Prime could do this out of the box using the standard methods. These types of things are best done using inline scripts to generate trials. BUT unfortunately this requires some level of programming skills. The script could do something like: -load 48 non target words from a text file -randomise the order of the 48 words -load 2 target words from another file -insert target word 1 randomly into the word array in a position in range of 6-25 (i.e. in trial 2,3,4, or 5) -insert target word 2 randomly into the word array in a position in range of 26-45 (i.e. in trial 6,7,8,9 0r 10) -now pump 5 words of the word array, starting at word 1, into a list for each trial (i.e. trial1 = word1-5, trial2= word6-10, etc...) So summing up, E-Prime CAN do it but not easily. You will find that all these sorts of 'easy to use' packages in many areas work fine as long as you want to do what it wants you to do! Hope this was helpful. Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Paul R. Jackson Experimental Programmer School of Psychology University of Queensland E:paulj at psy.uq.edu.au P:3365-6713 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > -----Original Message----- > From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org > [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On Behalf Of Rachel Mitchell > Sent: Monday, 6 September 2004 10:54 PM > To: Eprime mailing list > Subject: A better solution? > > Hi > > A colleague has asked if I can put the following experimental > needs to the eprime community > > She has a list of 50 words > 5 words are displayed on screen at a time going vertically > down the screen There are 10 trials > > Easy so far! > > The constraints: > A word must NOT appear twice on a single display screen A > word must not be repeated in the 10 trials (even if on a > different screen > position) > > Within this suite of 50 words there are two target words, T1 and T2 > T1 must be displayed somewhere between trials 2-5 > T2 must be displayed somewhere between trials 6-9 > > Her question is this: > Is there a better way of setting this up other than > predetermining word orders and positions before eprime i.e. > can eprime cope with all these constraints on its own? > > I look forward to your ideas! > > Regards > rachel > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > Dr Rachel L. C. Mitchell > Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology, University of Reading > Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry Research > Psychologist, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust > > Correspondence Address: > School of Psychology > Whiteknights Road > University of Reading > Reading > Berkshire > RG6 6AL > > Tel: +44 (0)118 378 8523 > Direct Dial: +44 (0)118 378 7530 > Fax: +44 (0)118 378 6715 > -------------------------------------------------------------- > --------- > From sung0015 at tc.umn.edu Tue Sep 7 16:05:12 2004 From: sung0015 at tc.umn.edu (Yung-Chi Sung) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:05:12 -0500 Subject: pause at every 50 trials in a 750-trial task? Message-ID: Dear college: I have 750 trials in my lexical decision task. I think i should have my Ss take a break every 50 trials. Is there a easy way (function/parameter) that i can do this in e-prime? I appreciate your help. Yung-Chi Sung Center for Cognitive Science University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55414 U.S.A. From asa8 at leicester.ac.uk Tue Sep 7 16:51:16 2004 From: asa8 at leicester.ac.uk (Andrews, A.S.) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 17:51:16 +0100 Subject: pause at every 50 trials in a 750-trial task? Message-ID: You can do this using an inline script and a flag For example: inline: if not (c.GetAttrib("BlockList.Sample") MOD 51 )=0 then goto carryon then (textdisplay object with "press a key after your break" with infite duration and any key input) then (Flag carryon) I would suggest you use 49 or 51 rather than 50 so that you don't pause with one trial to go! HTH Regards Tony Andrews Senior Computer Officer School of Psychology University of Leciester ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yung-Chi Sung" To: Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 5:05 PM Subject: pause at every 50 trials in a 750-trial task? > Dear college: > > I have 750 trials in my lexical decision task. I think i should have my Ss > take a break every 50 trials. Is there a easy way (function/parameter) > that i can do this in e-prime? > > I appreciate your help. > > > Yung-Chi Sung > Center for Cognitive Science > University of Minnesota > Minneapolis, MN 55414 > U.S.A. > > > From rcelind at okstate.edu Tue Sep 7 16:58:17 2004 From: rcelind at okstate.edu (Celinda M Reese) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 11:58:17 -0500 Subject: pause at every 50 trials in a 750-trial task? Message-ID: Return Receipt Your Re: pause at every 50 trials in a 750-trial task? document : was Celinda M Reese/psych/cas/Okstate received by: at: 09/07/2004 11:58:16 AM From anthony.zuccolotto at pstnet.com Tue Sep 7 18:12:40 2004 From: anthony.zuccolotto at pstnet.com (Tony Zuccolotto) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:12:40 -0400 Subject: pause at every 50 trials in a 750-trial task? Message-ID: You should be able to do this without writing any script. Make a block list that calls a single block procedure. On the block list set the Weight to the number of blocks you want to run (i.e. 750 trials / 50 trials per block = 15 blocks) On the block procedure create a trial list that defines all 750 trials. On the Reset/Exit tab of the Properties dialog for the trial list, set the "Exit List" option to "After 50 samples". Also verify that the "Reset at the beginning of each Run" check box is cleared and that the "Reset Sampling (Define Cycle)" criteria is set to "All samples (750)". On the block procedure (after the trial list) create a text display for the user that says something like "Now we will take a break..." and set it's duration to the amount of time you want to have them break. The key piece of this solution is that when the "Reset at the beginning of each Run" check box is cleared on a List object in E-Prime it will NOT reshuffle itself until the "Reset Sampling (Define Cycle)" criteria is met. As long as you have that set to the default of "All samples (750)" then you can re-run the list multiple times and E-Prime will just pick up the sampling where it last left off. Thus, this should shuffle your 750 stimuli once at the beginning, and then present them to the subject in groups (blocks) of 50 trials, with a break following each one. Hope that helps, Tony *** DISCLAIMER: ALL VIEWS EXPRESSED ARE MY OWN AND DO NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT THOSE OF PSYCHOLOGY SOFTWARE TOOLS *** Anthony P. Zuccolotto Vice President and Chief Operations Officer Psychology Software Tools, Inc. 2050 Ardmore Boulevard Suite 200 Pittsburgh, PA 15221-4610 Phone 412-271-5040 FAX 412-271-7077 Email anthony.zuccolotto at pstnet.com Internet http://www.pstnet.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Yung-Chi Sung [mailto:sung0015 at tc.umn.edu] > Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 12:05 PM > To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org > Subject: pause at every 50 trials in a 750-trial task? > > Dear college: > > I have 750 trials in my lexical decision task. I think i should have my Ss > take a break every 50 trials. Is there a easy way (function/parameter) > that > i can do this in e-prime? > > I appreciate your help. > > > Yung-Chi Sung > Center for Cognitive Science > University of Minnesota > Minneapolis, MN 55414 > U.S.A. > From rcelind at okstate.edu Tue Sep 7 19:32:14 2004 From: rcelind at okstate.edu (Celinda M Reese) Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:32:14 -0500 Subject: pause at every 50 trials in a 750-trial task? Message-ID: Return Receipt Your RE: pause at every 50 trials in a 750-trial task? document : was Celinda M Reese/psych/cas/Okstate received by: at: 09/07/2004 02:32:13 PM From yjang at psyc.umd.edu Thu Sep 9 03:03:20 2004 From: yjang at psyc.umd.edu (Yoonhee Jang) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 23:03:20 -0400 Subject: how to control recall-phase time for different lists Message-ID: Hello, There are two different lists - one is the short list which has 6 items and the other is the long list which has 24 items. The dependent measure is free-recall response. During the recall test, the duration of recall phase for each list should be controlled - No matter how many items have been presented (i.e., short list or long list), subjects should type their reponses within 1 minute as possible as they can. Now their task is typing a word and pressing "Enter" key to type another word or to study items of next list (i.e., pressing the key 6 times for the short list and 24 times for the long list). After a given 1 minute, the recall test has been done, and then next items will be presented. Please help me out. Thank you so much. Yoonhee From yjang at psyc.umd.edu Thu Sep 9 17:25:42 2004 From: yjang at psyc.umd.edu (Yoonhee Jang) Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 13:25:42 -0400 Subject: file read/write Message-ID: Hello, If I'd like to read items from a text file (NOT read them from List Objects) and write responses into a text file (NOT write them into an edata file), what should I do? Any help would be much appreciated. Yoonhee From yjang at psyc.umd.edu Fri Sep 10 22:08:25 2004 From: yjang at psyc.umd.edu (Yoonhee Jang) Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:08:25 -0400 Subject: free recall test Message-ID: Hello, My problem is in setting up the test list such that e-prime can record multiple entries (people typing in each word they remember -> free recall test), and furthermore scoring the accuracy of the entered words, and finally setting a timed deadline for entering (e.g., one minute to enter as many as you can remember). I know it's no problem to do these things for a single recalled item (for instance cued-recall or Peterson and Peterson recall), but e-prime doesn't seem to be set up to receive consecutive items (which are not necessarily in the studied order), and also have some sort of outer loop for timing. Do you have any ideas of how to do this in e-prime? Any suggestions are appreciated. Yoonhee From Paul.Warren at vuw.ac.nz Mon Sep 13 01:52:20 2004 From: Paul.Warren at vuw.ac.nz (Paul Warren) Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:52:20 +1200 Subject: presenting sentences containing words in bold Message-ID: Can anyone suggest a method for presenting individual sentence texts in which one word in each sentence is in bold? The only solution I have come up with so far is to create the sentences in a word processing package and copy them individually to bitmap files to display as pictures, one for each trial. However this is proving to be extremely tedious for a large number of sentence files. I thought I could have a set of text strings for sections of the sentence, entered as individual attributes in a trial list. One of these attributes would have font set to bold, and the sections could be presented instantaneously. But I haven't been able to work out how to determine automatically the position of each subsequent bit of text, given that the sentence strings have variable lengths and the word in bold has variable locations through the string. Dr Paul Warren Senior Lecturer in Linguistics School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies Victoria University of Wellington PO Box 600 Wellington New Zealand tel +64 4 463 5631/5600 fax +64 4 463 5604 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michael.mcguire at washburn.edu Mon Sep 13 02:08:19 2004 From: michael.mcguire at washburn.edu (Michael J. McGuire, Ph.D.) Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 21:08:19 -0500 Subject: presenting sentences containing words in bold In-Reply-To: Message-ID: I believe the only way to address this is to use the slide object. Paul Warren wrote: > Can anyone suggest a method for presenting individual sentence texts > in which one word in each sentence is in bold? The only solution I > have come up with so far is to create the sentences in a word > processing package and copy them individually to bitmap files to > display as pictures, one for each trial. However this is proving to > be extremely tedious for a large number of sentence files. I thought I > could have a set of text strings for sections of the sentence, > entered as individual attributes in a trial list. One of these > attributes would have font set to bold, and the sections could be > presented instantaneously. But I haven't been able to work out how to > determine automatically the position of each subsequent bit of text, > given that the sentence strings have variable lengths and the word in > bold has variable locations through the string. > > > Dr Paul Warren > > Senior Lecturer in Linguistics > > School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies > > Victoria University of Wellington > > PO Box 600 > > Wellington > > New Zealand > > tel +64 4 463 5631/5600 > > fax +64 4 463 5604 > > -- Michael J. McGuire, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Washburn University 1700 College Avenue Topeka, KS 66621 Michael.McGuire at washburn.edu www.washburn.edu/faculty/mmcguire From a.holmes at uq.edu.au Thu Sep 16 04:40:15 2004 From: a.holmes at uq.edu.au (Anna Holmes) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 14:40:15 +1000 Subject: Randomise stimuli according to 2 criteria??? Message-ID: Dear fellow E-Primers, As an E-Prime rookie (with no scripting experience), I am hoping that someone may be able to help me. I am trying to create a lexical decision priming task with 2 blocks of the following stimuli: Number of trials Condition Number Condition Name Correct response (ResponseType) 12 1 Expected-related Yes (1) 12 2 Expected-unrelated Yes (1) 4 3 Unexpected-unrelated Yes (1) 4 4 Unexpected-related Yes (1) 12 5 Neutral Yes (1) 44 6 Nonword No (2) I understand that script can be written (e.g., samples - No Repeats; String Array to Populate List) such that the same type of stimulus condition is not presented on consecutive trials (e.g., another related word pair will not directly follow a related word pair). However, I am trying to work out if I can randomise my stimuli according to 2 criteria: 1.. That no condition occurs more than 3 times consecutively 2.. That no single response type occurs more than 3 times consecutively (no more than 3 yes (or no) responses in a row) I have chosen these two criteria because if I only randomise according to condition, it will likely result in strings of stimuli that require a 'yes' response as 5 of the 6 conditions call for the participant to respond 'yes'. Hope my question is clear although reasonably complicated. Look forward to any suggestions. Thanks Anna ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Anna D Holmes. BSpPath(Hons) Division of Speech Pathology School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences University of Queensland QLD 4072 Australia Phone: +61 7 3346 9726 Fax: +61 7 3365 1877 a.holmes at uq.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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In-Reply-To: <009201c49ba7$4612fdf0$4bb2a8c0@helencphd1> Message-ID: Dear Anna, I've struggled with this question, too, in an experiment where we showed smoking & food-related pictures and words. We didn't want more than two stimuli in the same category (i.e., smoking-related image followed by smoking-related image), yet the selection of the stimuli was random. Now I think I would try to write a bit of script that would analyze the last two stimuli and avoid choosing the same type three times in a row, but I think that might result in a bunch at the end that would all be the same, which may cause an error. I'd be interested in other programmers' thoughts on this one. Leisha Wharfield Decision Research Eugene, Oregon, USA Anna Holmes wrote: > Dear fellow E-Primers, > > As an E-Prime rookie (with no scripting experience), I am hoping that > someone may be able to help me. > > I am trying to create a lexical decision priming task with 2 blocks of > the following stimuli: > > Number of trials > > > > Condition Number > > > > Condition Name > > > > Correct response > > (ResponseType) > > 12 > > > > 1 > > > > Expected-related > > > > Yes (1) > > 12 > > > > 2 > > > > Expected-unrelated > > > > Yes (1) > > 4 > > > > 3 > > > > Unexpected-unrelated > > > > Yes (1) > > 4 > > > > 4 > > > > Unexpected-related > > > > Yes (1) > > 12 > > > > 5 > > > > Neutral > > > > Yes (1) > > 44 > > > > 6 > > > > Nonword > > > > No (2) > > > I understand that script can be written (e.g., samples - No Repeats; > String Array to Populate List) such that the same type of stimulus > condition is not presented on consecutive trials (e.g., another > related word pair will not directly follow a related word pair). > > However, I am trying to work out if I can randomise my stimuli > according to 2 criteria: > > 1. That no condition occurs more than 3 times consecutively > 2. That no single response type occurs more than 3 times > consecutively (no more than 3 yes (or no) responses in a row) > > I have chosen these two criteria because if I only randomise according > to condition, it will likely result in strings of stimuli that require > a 'yes' response as 5 of the 6 conditions call for the participant to > respond 'yes'. > > Hope my question is clear although reasonably complicated. > > Look forward to any suggestions. > > Thanks > Anna > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Anna D Holmes. BSpPath(Hons) > Division of Speech Pathology > School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences > University of Queensland > QLD 4072 Australia > Phone: +61 7 3346 9726 > Fax: +61 7 3365 1877 > a.holmes at uq.edu.au -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I had problems with trials in which only the non-target (without a prime) should be presented. Eventually, I edited the script with an If .. Then solution to avoid presenting the prime when the prime is 0. This worked out fine. The other problem I could not deal with. Sometimes, for non-targets, the Target.ACC indicates 0 whereas (correctly) no hit was made. This should be 1 (correct). Secondly, not on all trials the CRESP is {SPACE}. Sometimes nothing appears. What should I do, for I guess that the problem with th ACC being 0 instead of 1 is because I want to collect no response on some trials. Who could help me with this problem. Marijn Lijffijt -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu Tue Sep 28 14:18:22 2004 From: ks7t at andrew.cmu.edu (Kelley Sacco) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:18:22 -0400 Subject: Job Opportunity in Human Functional Neuroimaging & Cardiovascular Health Message-ID: Job Opportunity in Human Functional Neuroimaging & Cardiovascular Health We are seeking a full time Research Associate to work on studies investigating how the human brain controls cardiovascular reactions to stress, and how biological responses to stress relate to the risk for developing cardiovascular disease. Individuals who wish to pursue a career in the neurosciences or in the field of biobehavioral health will benefit most from this position. Interested individuals should have a Bachelor?s or Master?s degree in a natural or quantitative science or in one of the following areas: Psychology, Neuroscience, Statistics, Biostatistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or Mathematics. We will consider individuals who will complete their degrees by the end of 2004. Preference will be given to individuals who have some background in UNIX, MATLAB, database management, and a statistical package, such as SPSS or SAS. Interested individuals should send a cover letter and a resume or a curriculum vitae to Leslie Mitrik by email (mitrikla at upmc.edu ) or regular mail (Cardiovascular Behavioral Medicine Program, 3811 O?Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15213). For more information, call 412-246-5966. From tab2006 at med.cornell.edu Tue Sep 28 22:29:02 2004 From: tab2006 at med.cornell.edu (Tracy Butler) Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 18:29:02 -0400 Subject: visual working memory paradigm Message-ID: This is a request from a colleague: Does anyone have a visual working memory paradigm (N back) programmed for IFIS with pictures or letters? Thank you, Linda Please respond to laheier at med.cornell.edu