From r.m.cooper at stir.ac.uk Wed May 4 14:50:45 2005 From: r.m.cooper at stir.ac.uk (Robbie Cooper) Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 15:50:45 +0100 Subject: presenting video stimuli in e-prime Message-ID: I am a new user to e-prime and new to this list so apologies if these questions have been discussed before. 1) I wish to display short video clips (about 1000ms). What is the best way to achieve this in e-prime? 2) These video clips would appear centrally. However, I would also like to display a probe (a letter) in one of 4 locations in the periphery of the display. These probes would appear with different onset times relative to the beginning of each video clip (e.g video clip starts and then a probe appears 200ms/500ms/800ms afterwards and thus while the video is still playing. 3) The dependent variable in this study would be the reaction time to the probe as a function of the video content. My final question is about timing. How much timing accuracy do you sacrifice if you are displaying videos and collecting RTs simultaneously? My testing machine has a 3GHz processor. If anyone has any help or advice I would be most grateful! Robbie Cooper PhD Research Student Face Perception Lab Department of Psychology University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA UK +44 (0)1786 466375 > -----Original Message----- > From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On Behalf > Of Brian MacWhinney > Sent: 18 April 2005 10:29 pm > To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org > Subject: Re: Eprime Version 2.0 > > Jacob, > > For most of the year, the website has said that 2.0 is due in Summer > 2005. The fact that this has not been pushed back should be a positive > sign. Of course, this is still the Spring and the Summer runs until > Sept 22, right? My guess is that the two biggest things in the new > release will be the support for movies and Unicode. However, many of > the other features listed at the website will be important too, > including copy and paste between experiments. > > --Brian MacWhinney > > On Apr 18, 2005, at 5:19 PM, Jacob Anderson wrote: > > > Has anyone heard when the release of E-Prime 2.0 will be? I know > > that PTS has a basic list of updates/improvements, but it would be > > nice to know what's going on in the new release. My lab is > > interested in many of the newer features, but we are not looking > > forward to debugging our current scripts in version, if it does break > > our inline code. > > > > Thanks, > > Jake > > Jacob E. Anderson > > Psychophysiologist > > Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research > > University of Minnesota > > 460N 75 East River Road > > Minneapolis, MN 55455 > > 612-626-7790 > > > > "I have no lid upon my head, but if I did you could look inside and > > see what's on my mind" Dave Matthews > > > -- The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not disclose, copy or deliver this message to anyone and any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. From brandon_cernicky at yahoo.com Wed May 4 18:08:01 2005 From: brandon_cernicky at yahoo.com (Brandon Cernicky) Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:08:01 -0700 Subject: presenting video stimuli in e-prime Message-ID: Although movie playing is the top feature for E-Prime 2.0 later this year, E-Prime 1.x does not support playing videos during critical timing trials (it can play instruction movies through power point). Since you mentioned your movies are 1000ms, at a rate of 30 frames a second, you would have aprx 30-40 images per movie. If you are capable/willing to split each frame up into its own .bmp file, you can display them in E-Prime one after another to create an animation. Specifically, there is a sample on the PST Web Support site called "sprite manager" that could be used for a paradigm similar to what you have described, especially if the movies you wish to present are not full screen since Sprite Manager helps allocate video resources beneficially versus brute force canvas object creation. The info/help document that SpriteManager installs off the Start/E-Prime menu is very valid reading for any paradigm that involves images. Using SpriteManager coupled with small framed text display objects and appropriate InLine script, your paradigm could potentially be implemented. Using Sprite Manager or brute force canvas objects in E-Prime will permit for your paradigm to have the critical timing you would need. -Brandon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brandon S. Cernicky Senior Software Engineer Psychology Software Tools > I am a new user to e-prime and new to this list so > apologies if these > questions have been discussed before. > > 1) I wish to display short video clips (about > 1000ms). What is the > best way to achieve this in e-prime? > > 2) These video clips would appear centrally. > However, I would also like > to display a probe (a letter) in one of 4 locations > in the periphery of > the display. These probes would appear with > different onset times > relative to the beginning of each video clip (e.g > video clip starts and > then a probe appears 200ms/500ms/800ms afterwards > and thus while the > video is still playing. > > 3) The dependent variable in this study would be > the reaction time to > the probe as a function of the video content. My > final question is > about timing. How much timing accuracy do you > sacrifice if you are > displaying videos and collecting RTs > simultaneously? My testing machine > has a 3GHz processor. > > > If anyone has any help or advice I would be most > grateful! > > Robbie Cooper > PhD Research Student > Face Perception Lab > Department of Psychology > University of Stirling > Stirling > FK9 4LA > UK > +44 (0)1786 466375 > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail From KKim at iona.edu Wed May 4 18:15:47 2005 From: KKim at iona.edu (Kim, Kisok) Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 14:15:47 -0400 Subject: e-prime - student version? Message-ID: Is there a plan for the "student version" of the e-prime? -- lower priced one with limited function? -----Original Message----- From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org on behalf of Brandon Cernicky Sent: Wed 5/4/2005 2:08 PM To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org Cc: Subject: RE: presenting video stimuli in e-prime Although movie playing is the top feature for E-Prime 2.0 later this year, E-Prime 1.x does not support playing videos during critical timing trials (it can play instruction movies through power point). Since you mentioned your movies are 1000ms, at a rate of 30 frames a second, you would have aprx 30-40 images per movie. If you are capable/willing to split each frame up into its own .bmp file, you can display them in E-Prime one after another to create an animation. Specifically, there is a sample on the PST Web Support site called "sprite manager" that could be used for a paradigm similar to what you have described, especially if the movies you wish to present are not full screen since Sprite Manager helps allocate video resources beneficially versus brute force canvas object creation. The info/help document that SpriteManager installs off the Start/E-Prime menu is very valid reading for any paradigm that involves images. Using SpriteManager coupled with small framed text display objects and appropriate InLine script, your paradigm could potentially be implemented. Using Sprite Manager or brute force canvas objects in E-Prime will permit for your paradigm to have the critical timing you would need. -Brandon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brandon S. Cernicky Senior Software Engineer Psychology Software Tools > I am a new user to e-prime and new to this list so > apologies if these > questions have been discussed before. > > 1) I wish to display short video clips (about > 1000ms). What is the > best way to achieve this in e-prime? > > 2) These video clips would appear centrally. > However, I would also like > to display a probe (a letter) in one of 4 locations > in the periphery of > the display. These probes would appear with > different onset times > relative to the beginning of each video clip (e.g > video clip starts and > then a probe appears 200ms/500ms/800ms afterwards > and thus while the > video is still playing. > > 3) The dependent variable in this study would be > the reaction time to > the probe as a function of the video content. My > final question is > about timing. How much timing accuracy do you > sacrifice if you are > displaying videos and collecting RTs > simultaneously? My testing machine > has a 3GHz processor. > > > If anyone has any help or advice I would be most > grateful! > > Robbie Cooper > PhD Research Student > Face Perception Lab > Department of Psychology > University of Stirling > Stirling > FK9 4LA > UK > +44 (0)1786 466375 > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail From michael.crowley at yale.edu Tue May 10 22:03:09 2005 From: michael.crowley at yale.edu (Michael J. Crowley) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 18:03:09 -0400 Subject: startle and eprime Message-ID: Dear List, Is there anyone on the list using eprime along with collecting EMG startle? I'm looking specifically to interface with our Colbourn and San Diego systems. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. thank you. Mike Michael J. Crowley, Ph.D. Yale Child Study Center 230 South Frontage Rd. New Haven, CT 06520 Please be aware that email communication can be intercepted in transmission or misdirected. Please consider communicating any sensitive information by telephone, fax or mail. The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential. If you are NOT the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately with a copy to hipaa.security at yale.edu and destroy this message. From DUNWOODY at juniata.edu Wed May 11 00:18:47 2005 From: DUNWOODY at juniata.edu (Dunwoody, Philip T (DUNWOODY)) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 20:18:47 -0400 Subject: Eprime vs Superlab Message-ID: I am starting up a lab and trying to decide between purchasing Eprime and Superlab. I am told that Eprime is more flexible than Superlab but that Superlab is much easier to work with. Does anyone on this list have experience with both? What is your opinion of the two? What are some specific examples of things I can do in Eprime that I cannot do in Superlab? Thanks. Philip T. Dunwoody Assistant Professor of Psychology Juniata College, Good Hall 1700 Moore St. Huntingdon, PA 16652 Phone: 1-814-641-5333 Fax: 1-814-641-3695 http://faculty.juniata.edu/dunwoody/ From M.Laverman at fss.uu.nl Wed May 11 07:15:27 2005 From: M.Laverman at fss.uu.nl (Laverman, M. (Martin)) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 09:15:27 +0200 Subject: startle and eprime Message-ID: Hi Mike, We use E-Prime and Coulbourn-systems to collect startle-data. Only we don't use them in interaction with each other, but next to each other. An E-Prime experiment shows some pictures and evokes the startle by a loud white-noise sound, the data is then collected by the Coulbourn system. Unfortunately this is the only experience I have with this, so I can't help you any further. I'm also interested in anything to do with E-Prime and Coulbourn-systems. Kind regards, Martin Laverman Department of Clinical Psychology University of Utrecht The Netherlands -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org]Namens Michael J. Crowley Verzonden: woensdag 11 mei 2005 0:03 Aan: eprime at mail.talkbank.org Onderwerp: startle and eprime Dear List, Is there anyone on the list using eprime along with collecting EMG startle? I'm looking specifically to interface with our Colbourn and San Diego systems. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. thank you. Mike Michael J. Crowley, Ph.D. Yale Child Study Center 230 South Frontage Rd. New Haven, CT 06520 Please be aware that email communication can be intercepted in transmission or misdirected. Please consider communicating any sensitive information by telephone, fax or mail. The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential. 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Best wishes Nikos, C ---------------------- Nikos Chatzisarantis University of Exeter (email: n.chatzisarantis at exeter.ac.uk) This email and any attachment may contain information that is confidential, privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. It is intended for the sole use of the legitimate addressee only. If you received this message in error, please let me know and delete the email and any attachments immediately. Thank you. From katzlb at upmc.edu Thu May 19 21:08:12 2005 From: katzlb at upmc.edu (Katz, Lena B.) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 17:08:12 -0400 Subject: lever Message-ID: I haven't check around, but I'm not seeing much from PST about using levers (they do offer an optional footpedal on their response box, and it might at least prove interesting for your research). Otherwise, you're probably stuck building the device (or finding someone who already has built one...). Doesn't sound like too much of a mechanical problem (wires that connect only when the lever is pushed down, for example...) But, on the software side of things, it gets a hell of a lot more tricky. If anyone on here has ever used a "response box" that wasn't PST's response box, I'd be very interested in knowing how to rig up the API. Lena -----Original Message----- From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org on behalf of Nikos Chatzisarantis Sent: Wed 5/18/2005 2:54 AM To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org Cc: Subject: lever Dear All I would like to use a lever as a response mode for approach/avoidance reactions. The lever must be 90cm long. My question is where can I purchase such a lever? In addition, is the e-prime software compatible with the lever? From ritadrianasp at yahoo.com.br Tue May 24 15:53:31 2005 From: ritadrianasp at yahoo.com.br (Rita Souza) Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 12:53:31 -0300 Subject: E-prime and Norton 2005 Message-ID: Hi. I' am an E-Prime newbie. ( I'am undergraund student) and I wonder if anybody could help me on the following. I'am planning to run the E-Prime under win2K and the PC that i'm using has an antivirus (Norton 2005). I'd like to Know if I have to disable it to run experiments properly ( timing accuracy issues). Thanks. __________________________________________________ Converse com seus amigos em tempo real com o Yahoo! Messenger http://br.download.yahoo.com/messenger/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From baranan at post.tau.ac.il Wed May 25 10:27:39 2005 From: baranan at post.tau.ac.il (Yoav Bar Anan) Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 13:27:39 +0300 Subject: E-prime and TMS Message-ID: Hi all, We need to send signals from our computer, that runs e-prime, to Cadwell's TMS (Cadwell flash stimulator. high speed magnetic stimulator HSMS). I've been told that we can connect to the TMS using a cable from the COM port to the TMS. 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David Hairston Neurobiology and Anatomy Wake Forest University School of Medicine Winston-Salem, NC 27157 (336) 716-4481 (lab) http://www.wfubmc.edu/nba/XMODAL/ -----Original Message----- From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On Behalf Of Rita Souza Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:54 AM To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org Subject: E-prime and Norton 2005 Hi. I' am an E-Prime newbie. ( I'am undergraund student) and I wonder if anybody could help me on the following. I'am planning to run the E-Prime under win2K and the PC that i'm using has an antivirus (Norton 2005). I'd like to Know if I have to disable it to run experiments properly ( timing accuracy issues). Thanks. __________________________________________________ Converse com seus amigos em tempo real com o Yahoo! Messenger http://br.download.yahoo.com/messenger/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pauls_postbus at hotmail.com Thu May 26 07:26:10 2005 From: pauls_postbus at hotmail.com (Paul Gr) Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 09:26:10 +0200 Subject: E-prime and Norton 2005 In-Reply-To: <4CCFAF32FB7B2C449A189C82198E426501261B27@EXCHVS1.medctr.ad.wfubmc.edu> Message-ID: E-Prime will indeed lower the scheduling priority of other applications when running scripts to increase timing accuracy. However, most anti-virus applications have build-in protection against ‘interfering’ software. We use Norman anti-virus and have noticed timing accuracy problems on some machines when the ‘on access scanner’ (the module that checks all file I/O transactions at runtime) was active. Ideally, time critical experiments should be performed on machines without active network connection and without active anti-virus tools! paul >From: "David Hairston" >To: "Rita Souza" , >Subject: RE: E-prime and Norton 2005 >Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 09:12:51 -0400 > >I do not think that having Norton running in the background is a >problem. At our institution here, all PCs are required to have Norton >running all the time; thus far I have been fairly successful at >acquiring millisecond-level timing consistency. >I believe that E-Prime "shuts out" all other Windows resources when an >experiment is running, so this probably means that Norton effectively >isn't running/scanning at the same time anyway.... > > > >W. David Hairston >Neurobiology and Anatomy > >Wake Forest University School of Medicine >Winston-Salem, NC 27157 >(336) 716-4481 (lab) >http://www.wfubmc.edu/nba/XMODAL/ >-----Original Message----- >From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On >Behalf Of Rita Souza >Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:54 AM >To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org >Subject: E-prime and Norton 2005 > >Hi. >I' am an E-Prime newbie. ( I'am undergraund student) and I wonder if >anybody could help me on the following. >I'am planning to run the E-Prime under win2K and the PC that >i'm using has an antivirus (Norton 2005). >I'd like to Know if I have to disable it to run experiments properly ( >timing accuracy issues). > >Thanks. >__________________________________________________ >Converse com seus amigos em tempo real com o Yahoo! Messenger >http://br.download.yahoo.com/messenger/ _________________________________________________________________ Direct antwoord op je vragen: gebruik MSN Messenger http://messenger.msn.nl/ From N.Chatzisarantis at exeter.ac.uk Fri May 27 07:17:53 2005 From: N.Chatzisarantis at exeter.ac.uk (Nikos Chatzisarantis) Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 08:17:53 +0100 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Dear All In the e-prime, I have seven blocks of trials and each block selects words from a list of words. However, i would like to vary the number of trials within each block and I cannot find out how. I tried everything such as changing the cycles (through the property menus). The program seems to read the number of trials I specify the design list and not the number of trial I specify in blocks or list of words. 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For more information about applying for the position, please browse to http://www.pstnet.com/info/jobs.htm or send email to amy.eschman at pstnet.com Amy Eschman Manager, Technical Consulting ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Psychology Software Tools, Inc. 2050 Ardmore Boulevard Suite 200 Pittsburgh, PA 15221-4610 USA ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Visit our Web Site for the latest info: Internet: http://www.pstnet.com E-Mail: info at pstnet.com Voice: (412) 271-5040 Fax: (412) 271-7077 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lngmyers at ccu.edu.tw Tue May 31 09:42:21 2005 From: lngmyers at ccu.edu.tw (Lngmyers) Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 17:42:21 +0800 Subject: E-Prime WinXP evaluation version Message-ID: In our lab we use the WinXP version of E-Prime in Chinese Windows with no problems. However, students who aren't associated with the lab need to use the evaluation version to run their class projects (the lab's too busy to let them all use the single bedongled lab computer). Unfortunately, we just discovered that it doesn't work: the evaluation version of WinXP E-Prime is very unstable in Chinese Windows XP. Usually (though not always) the program just crashes when you try to run the experiment (there seem to be no problems in the design stage). Specifically, we get an extremely vague dialog box saying that the E-Prime development environment has some sort of error. The dialog box is in Chinese, meaning that the error is coming from Windows, not E-Prime. There's no error code or anything to identify it more specifically. Exactly the same experiment rewritten for the Win98 evaluation version works just fine in Chinese Windows 98, but computers with Win98 are hard to find now that everybody's been brainwashed into "upgrading". If it's at all relevant, the experiment involves BMP and WAV files... but another experiment that also involves WAV files works OK (though this one has fewer WAV files). So three questions: (1) Any idea why this happens? Why is the evaluation WinXP version unstable in Chinese Windows, but the full WinXP version and evaluation Win98 versions are both stable...? (2) Any idea how to fix it? (3) Since I strongly suspect that the problem is unfixable, any suggestions for free experimental control programs that the students could use instead of E-Prime? (Psyscope is out, Taiwan being a virtually Mac-free environment.) We've only used DMDX in the lab, which works perfectly fine in Chinese Windows, but it's not at all user-friendly. James Myers Graduate Institute of Linguistics National Chung Cheng University Min-Hsiung, Chia-Yi 621 From r.m.cooper at stir.ac.uk Wed May 4 14:50:45 2005 From: r.m.cooper at stir.ac.uk (Robbie Cooper) Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 15:50:45 +0100 Subject: presenting video stimuli in e-prime Message-ID: I am a new user to e-prime and new to this list so apologies if these questions have been discussed before. 1) I wish to display short video clips (about 1000ms). What is the best way to achieve this in e-prime? 2) These video clips would appear centrally. However, I would also like to display a probe (a letter) in one of 4 locations in the periphery of the display. These probes would appear with different onset times relative to the beginning of each video clip (e.g video clip starts and then a probe appears 200ms/500ms/800ms afterwards and thus while the video is still playing. 3) The dependent variable in this study would be the reaction time to the probe as a function of the video content. My final question is about timing. How much timing accuracy do you sacrifice if you are displaying videos and collecting RTs simultaneously? My testing machine has a 3GHz processor. If anyone has any help or advice I would be most grateful! Robbie Cooper PhD Research Student Face Perception Lab Department of Psychology University of Stirling Stirling FK9 4LA UK +44 (0)1786 466375 > -----Original Message----- > From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On Behalf > Of Brian MacWhinney > Sent: 18 April 2005 10:29 pm > To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org > Subject: Re: Eprime Version 2.0 > > Jacob, > > For most of the year, the website has said that 2.0 is due in Summer > 2005. The fact that this has not been pushed back should be a positive > sign. Of course, this is still the Spring and the Summer runs until > Sept 22, right? My guess is that the two biggest things in the new > release will be the support for movies and Unicode. However, many of > the other features listed at the website will be important too, > including copy and paste between experiments. > > --Brian MacWhinney > > On Apr 18, 2005, at 5:19 PM, Jacob Anderson wrote: > > > Has anyone heard when the release of E-Prime 2.0 will be? I know > > that PTS has a basic list of updates/improvements, but it would be > > nice to know what's going on in the new release. My lab is > > interested in many of the newer features, but we are not looking > > forward to debugging our current scripts in version, if it does break > > our inline code. > > > > Thanks, > > Jake > > Jacob E. Anderson > > Psychophysiologist > > Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research > > University of Minnesota > > 460N 75 East River Road > > Minneapolis, MN 55455 > > 612-626-7790 > > > > "I have no lid upon my head, but if I did you could look inside and > > see what's on my mind" Dave Matthews > > > -- The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), you may not disclose, copy or deliver this message to anyone and any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. In such case, you should destroy this message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. From brandon_cernicky at yahoo.com Wed May 4 18:08:01 2005 From: brandon_cernicky at yahoo.com (Brandon Cernicky) Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:08:01 -0700 Subject: presenting video stimuli in e-prime Message-ID: Although movie playing is the top feature for E-Prime 2.0 later this year, E-Prime 1.x does not support playing videos during critical timing trials (it can play instruction movies through power point). Since you mentioned your movies are 1000ms, at a rate of 30 frames a second, you would have aprx 30-40 images per movie. If you are capable/willing to split each frame up into its own .bmp file, you can display them in E-Prime one after another to create an animation. Specifically, there is a sample on the PST Web Support site called "sprite manager" that could be used for a paradigm similar to what you have described, especially if the movies you wish to present are not full screen since Sprite Manager helps allocate video resources beneficially versus brute force canvas object creation. The info/help document that SpriteManager installs off the Start/E-Prime menu is very valid reading for any paradigm that involves images. Using SpriteManager coupled with small framed text display objects and appropriate InLine script, your paradigm could potentially be implemented. Using Sprite Manager or brute force canvas objects in E-Prime will permit for your paradigm to have the critical timing you would need. -Brandon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brandon S. Cernicky Senior Software Engineer Psychology Software Tools > I am a new user to e-prime and new to this list so > apologies if these > questions have been discussed before. > > 1) I wish to display short video clips (about > 1000ms). What is the > best way to achieve this in e-prime? > > 2) These video clips would appear centrally. > However, I would also like > to display a probe (a letter) in one of 4 locations > in the periphery of > the display. These probes would appear with > different onset times > relative to the beginning of each video clip (e.g > video clip starts and > then a probe appears 200ms/500ms/800ms afterwards > and thus while the > video is still playing. > > 3) The dependent variable in this study would be > the reaction time to > the probe as a function of the video content. My > final question is > about timing. How much timing accuracy do you > sacrifice if you are > displaying videos and collecting RTs > simultaneously? My testing machine > has a 3GHz processor. > > > If anyone has any help or advice I would be most > grateful! > > Robbie Cooper > PhD Research Student > Face Perception Lab > Department of Psychology > University of Stirling > Stirling > FK9 4LA > UK > +44 (0)1786 466375 > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail From KKim at iona.edu Wed May 4 18:15:47 2005 From: KKim at iona.edu (Kim, Kisok) Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 14:15:47 -0400 Subject: e-prime - student version? Message-ID: Is there a plan for the "student version" of the e-prime? -- lower priced one with limited function? -----Original Message----- From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org on behalf of Brandon Cernicky Sent: Wed 5/4/2005 2:08 PM To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org Cc: Subject: RE: presenting video stimuli in e-prime Although movie playing is the top feature for E-Prime 2.0 later this year, E-Prime 1.x does not support playing videos during critical timing trials (it can play instruction movies through power point). Since you mentioned your movies are 1000ms, at a rate of 30 frames a second, you would have aprx 30-40 images per movie. If you are capable/willing to split each frame up into its own .bmp file, you can display them in E-Prime one after another to create an animation. Specifically, there is a sample on the PST Web Support site called "sprite manager" that could be used for a paradigm similar to what you have described, especially if the movies you wish to present are not full screen since Sprite Manager helps allocate video resources beneficially versus brute force canvas object creation. The info/help document that SpriteManager installs off the Start/E-Prime menu is very valid reading for any paradigm that involves images. Using SpriteManager coupled with small framed text display objects and appropriate InLine script, your paradigm could potentially be implemented. Using Sprite Manager or brute force canvas objects in E-Prime will permit for your paradigm to have the critical timing you would need. -Brandon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Brandon S. Cernicky Senior Software Engineer Psychology Software Tools > I am a new user to e-prime and new to this list so > apologies if these > questions have been discussed before. > > 1) I wish to display short video clips (about > 1000ms). What is the > best way to achieve this in e-prime? > > 2) These video clips would appear centrally. > However, I would also like > to display a probe (a letter) in one of 4 locations > in the periphery of > the display. These probes would appear with > different onset times > relative to the beginning of each video clip (e.g > video clip starts and > then a probe appears 200ms/500ms/800ms afterwards > and thus while the > video is still playing. > > 3) The dependent variable in this study would be > the reaction time to > the probe as a function of the video content. My > final question is > about timing. How much timing accuracy do you > sacrifice if you are > displaying videos and collecting RTs > simultaneously? My testing machine > has a 3GHz processor. > > > If anyone has any help or advice I would be most > grateful! > > Robbie Cooper > PhD Research Student > Face Perception Lab > Department of Psychology > University of Stirling > Stirling > FK9 4LA > UK > +44 (0)1786 466375 > __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail Mobile Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Check email on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/learn/mail From michael.crowley at yale.edu Tue May 10 22:03:09 2005 From: michael.crowley at yale.edu (Michael J. Crowley) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 18:03:09 -0400 Subject: startle and eprime Message-ID: Dear List, Is there anyone on the list using eprime along with collecting EMG startle? I'm looking specifically to interface with our Colbourn and San Diego systems. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. thank you. Mike Michael J. Crowley, Ph.D. Yale Child Study Center 230 South Frontage Rd. New Haven, CT 06520 Please be aware that email communication can be intercepted in transmission or misdirected. Please consider communicating any sensitive information by telephone, fax or mail. The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential. If you are NOT the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately with a copy to hipaa.security at yale.edu and destroy this message. From DUNWOODY at juniata.edu Wed May 11 00:18:47 2005 From: DUNWOODY at juniata.edu (Dunwoody, Philip T (DUNWOODY)) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 20:18:47 -0400 Subject: Eprime vs Superlab Message-ID: I am starting up a lab and trying to decide between purchasing Eprime and Superlab. I am told that Eprime is more flexible than Superlab but that Superlab is much easier to work with. Does anyone on this list have experience with both? What is your opinion of the two? What are some specific examples of things I can do in Eprime that I cannot do in Superlab? Thanks. Philip T. Dunwoody Assistant Professor of Psychology Juniata College, Good Hall 1700 Moore St. Huntingdon, PA 16652 Phone: 1-814-641-5333 Fax: 1-814-641-3695 http://faculty.juniata.edu/dunwoody/ From M.Laverman at fss.uu.nl Wed May 11 07:15:27 2005 From: M.Laverman at fss.uu.nl (Laverman, M. (Martin)) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 09:15:27 +0200 Subject: startle and eprime Message-ID: Hi Mike, We use E-Prime and Coulbourn-systems to collect startle-data. Only we don't use them in interaction with each other, but next to each other. An E-Prime experiment shows some pictures and evokes the startle by a loud white-noise sound, the data is then collected by the Coulbourn system. Unfortunately this is the only experience I have with this, so I can't help you any further. I'm also interested in anything to do with E-Prime and Coulbourn-systems. Kind regards, Martin Laverman Department of Clinical Psychology University of Utrecht The Netherlands -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org]Namens Michael J. Crowley Verzonden: woensdag 11 mei 2005 0:03 Aan: eprime at mail.talkbank.org Onderwerp: startle and eprime Dear List, Is there anyone on the list using eprime along with collecting EMG startle? I'm looking specifically to interface with our Colbourn and San Diego systems. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. thank you. Mike Michael J. Crowley, Ph.D. Yale Child Study Center 230 South Frontage Rd. New Haven, CT 06520 Please be aware that email communication can be intercepted in transmission or misdirected. Please consider communicating any sensitive information by telephone, fax or mail. The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential. 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URL: From N.Chatzisarantis at exeter.ac.uk Wed May 18 06:54:05 2005 From: N.Chatzisarantis at exeter.ac.uk (Nikos Chatzisarantis) Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 07:54:05 +0100 Subject: lever Message-ID: Dear All I would like to use a lever as a response mode for approach/avoidance reactions. The lever must be 90cm long. My question is where can I purchase such a lever? In addition, is the e-prime software compatible with the lever? Thank you for help in advance Nikos, C ---------------------- Nikos Chatzisarantis University of Exeter From N.Chatzisarantis at exeter.ac.uk Wed May 18 15:58:27 2005 From: N.Chatzisarantis at exeter.ac.uk (Nikos Chatzisarantis) Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 16:58:27 +0100 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Dear All Another question that I wanted to ask is this. Has anybody used synonyms of approach, avoidance, success, and failure in the sequential priming task or implicit association test (with e-prime) . if yes, would it be possible to have them? Best wishes Nikos, C ---------------------- Nikos Chatzisarantis University of Exeter (email: n.chatzisarantis at exeter.ac.uk) This email and any attachment may contain information that is confidential, privileged or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. It is intended for the sole use of the legitimate addressee only. If you received this message in error, please let me know and delete the email and any attachments immediately. Thank you. From katzlb at upmc.edu Thu May 19 21:08:12 2005 From: katzlb at upmc.edu (Katz, Lena B.) Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 17:08:12 -0400 Subject: lever Message-ID: I haven't check around, but I'm not seeing much from PST about using levers (they do offer an optional footpedal on their response box, and it might at least prove interesting for your research). Otherwise, you're probably stuck building the device (or finding someone who already has built one...). Doesn't sound like too much of a mechanical problem (wires that connect only when the lever is pushed down, for example...) But, on the software side of things, it gets a hell of a lot more tricky. If anyone on here has ever used a "response box" that wasn't PST's response box, I'd be very interested in knowing how to rig up the API. Lena -----Original Message----- From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org on behalf of Nikos Chatzisarantis Sent: Wed 5/18/2005 2:54 AM To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org Cc: Subject: lever Dear All I would like to use a lever as a response mode for approach/avoidance reactions. The lever must be 90cm long. My question is where can I purchase such a lever? In addition, is the e-prime software compatible with the lever? From ritadrianasp at yahoo.com.br Tue May 24 15:53:31 2005 From: ritadrianasp at yahoo.com.br (Rita Souza) Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 12:53:31 -0300 Subject: E-prime and Norton 2005 Message-ID: Hi. I' am an E-Prime newbie. ( I'am undergraund student) and I wonder if anybody could help me on the following. I'am planning to run the E-Prime under win2K and the PC that i'm using has an antivirus (Norton 2005). I'd like to Know if I have to disable it to run experiments properly ( timing accuracy issues). Thanks. __________________________________________________ Converse com seus amigos em tempo real com o Yahoo! Messenger http://br.download.yahoo.com/messenger/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From baranan at post.tau.ac.il Wed May 25 10:27:39 2005 From: baranan at post.tau.ac.il (Yoav Bar Anan) Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 13:27:39 +0300 Subject: E-prime and TMS Message-ID: Hi all, We need to send signals from our computer, that runs e-prime, to Cadwell's TMS (Cadwell flash stimulator. high speed magnetic stimulator HSMS). I've been told that we can connect to the TMS using a cable from the COM port to the TMS. 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David Hairston Neurobiology and Anatomy Wake Forest University School of Medicine Winston-Salem, NC 27157 (336) 716-4481 (lab) http://www.wfubmc.edu/nba/XMODAL/ -----Original Message----- From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On Behalf Of Rita Souza Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:54 AM To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org Subject: E-prime and Norton 2005 Hi. I' am an E-Prime newbie. ( I'am undergraund student) and I wonder if anybody could help me on the following. I'am planning to run the E-Prime under win2K and the PC that i'm using has an antivirus (Norton 2005). I'd like to Know if I have to disable it to run experiments properly ( timing accuracy issues). Thanks. __________________________________________________ Converse com seus amigos em tempo real com o Yahoo! Messenger http://br.download.yahoo.com/messenger/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pauls_postbus at hotmail.com Thu May 26 07:26:10 2005 From: pauls_postbus at hotmail.com (Paul Gr) Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 09:26:10 +0200 Subject: E-prime and Norton 2005 In-Reply-To: <4CCFAF32FB7B2C449A189C82198E426501261B27@EXCHVS1.medctr.ad.wfubmc.edu> Message-ID: E-Prime will indeed lower the scheduling priority of other applications when running scripts to increase timing accuracy. However, most anti-virus applications have build-in protection against ?interfering? software. We use Norman anti-virus and have noticed timing accuracy problems on some machines when the ?on access scanner? (the module that checks all file I/O transactions at runtime) was active. Ideally, time critical experiments should be performed on machines without active network connection and without active anti-virus tools! paul >From: "David Hairston" >To: "Rita Souza" , >Subject: RE: E-prime and Norton 2005 >Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 09:12:51 -0400 > >I do not think that having Norton running in the background is a >problem. At our institution here, all PCs are required to have Norton >running all the time; thus far I have been fairly successful at >acquiring millisecond-level timing consistency. >I believe that E-Prime "shuts out" all other Windows resources when an >experiment is running, so this probably means that Norton effectively >isn't running/scanning at the same time anyway.... > > > >W. David Hairston >Neurobiology and Anatomy > >Wake Forest University School of Medicine >Winston-Salem, NC 27157 >(336) 716-4481 (lab) >http://www.wfubmc.edu/nba/XMODAL/ >-----Original Message----- >From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On >Behalf Of Rita Souza >Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 11:54 AM >To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org >Subject: E-prime and Norton 2005 > >Hi. >I' am an E-Prime newbie. ( I'am undergraund student) and I wonder if >anybody could help me on the following. >I'am planning to run the E-Prime under win2K and the PC that >i'm using has an antivirus (Norton 2005). >I'd like to Know if I have to disable it to run experiments properly ( >timing accuracy issues). > >Thanks. >__________________________________________________ >Converse com seus amigos em tempo real com o Yahoo! Messenger >http://br.download.yahoo.com/messenger/ _________________________________________________________________ Direct antwoord op je vragen: gebruik MSN Messenger http://messenger.msn.nl/ From N.Chatzisarantis at exeter.ac.uk Fri May 27 07:17:53 2005 From: N.Chatzisarantis at exeter.ac.uk (Nikos Chatzisarantis) Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 08:17:53 +0100 Subject: No subject Message-ID: Dear All In the e-prime, I have seven blocks of trials and each block selects words from a list of words. However, i would like to vary the number of trials within each block and I cannot find out how. I tried everything such as changing the cycles (through the property menus). The program seems to read the number of trials I specify the design list and not the number of trial I specify in blocks or list of words. 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However, students who aren't associated with the lab need to use the evaluation version to run their class projects (the lab's too busy to let them all use the single bedongled lab computer). Unfortunately, we just discovered that it doesn't work: the evaluation version of WinXP E-Prime is very unstable in Chinese Windows XP. Usually (though not always) the program just crashes when you try to run the experiment (there seem to be no problems in the design stage). Specifically, we get an extremely vague dialog box saying that the E-Prime development environment has some sort of error. The dialog box is in Chinese, meaning that the error is coming from Windows, not E-Prime. There's no error code or anything to identify it more specifically. Exactly the same experiment rewritten for the Win98 evaluation version works just fine in Chinese Windows 98, but computers with Win98 are hard to find now that everybody's been brainwashed into "upgrading". If it's at all relevant, the experiment involves BMP and WAV files... but another experiment that also involves WAV files works OK (though this one has fewer WAV files). So three questions: (1) Any idea why this happens? Why is the evaluation WinXP version unstable in Chinese Windows, but the full WinXP version and evaluation Win98 versions are both stable...? (2) Any idea how to fix it? (3) Since I strongly suspect that the problem is unfixable, any suggestions for free experimental control programs that the students could use instead of E-Prime? (Psyscope is out, Taiwan being a virtually Mac-free environment.) We've only used DMDX in the lab, which works perfectly fine in Chinese Windows, but it's not at all user-friendly. James Myers Graduate Institute of Linguistics National Chung Cheng University Min-Hsiung, Chia-Yi 621