A better solution?

[Rachel Mitchell]

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


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Dr Rachel L. C. Mitchell
Lecturer in Cognitive Psychology, University of Reading
Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Psychiatry
Research Psychologist, Berkshire Healthcare NHS Trust

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