key press/release & RT

Tue Nov 6 18:03:02 UTC 2012

David, as always, thank you for your helpful suggestions. I will look more 
into this.

On Friday, November 2, 2012 4:57:38 PM UTC-4, McFarlane, David wrote:
>
> Please do not use Clock.Read to get the starting time of your 
> stimulus, this will almost never be exact, and is in any case 
> superfluous.  Suppose your text stimulus is named StimText.  Then 
> StimText.OnsetTime already tells you the onset time of the stimulus, 
> you should use that (see 
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/e-prime/browse_thread/thread/39e899d3457d4917). 
>
> If you think further, you might not even need to do that.  If you 
> have StimText start after the key is pressed down, and have StimText 
> launch its own "release" input mask, then StimText.RT will already be 
> the appropriate RT for the release response relative to the onset of 
> StimText. 
>
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>
> At 11/2/2012 01:24 PM Friday, Courtney Griffin wrote: 
> >David, thank you so much for your help. I was able to read through 
> >the Help section and get an idea of how to accomplish what I wanted. 
> > 
> >Would you happen to know how to use the Clock.Read function to start 
> >as soon as the stimulus is presented (I'm using basic text as my 
> stimulus)? 
> > 
> >On Tuesday, October 30, 2012 4:19:40 PM UTC-4, McFarlane, David wrote: 
> >Don't know about specifics in this case, just a couple hints for 
> >now.  Take a look at the "{key} nomenclature" topic in the E-Basic 
> >Help facility for hints on how to get RTs using key releases with 
> >ordinary stimulus objects.  That might get you most of the way, and 
> >if needed you could supplement this with some simple computations in 
> >inline code. 
> > 
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> > 
> >At 10/30/2012 04:08 PM Tuesday, Courtney Griffin wrote: 
> > >basically I want it to go something like this: 
> > > 
> > >at stimulus display, read the clock and get the time (will name this 
> > >variable T1) 
> > >after key release, read the clock and get that time (will name this 
> > >variable T2) 
> > >at key press (final response), read the clock and get that time 
> > >(will name variable T3) 
> > > 
> > >RT (reaction time) = T2-T1 
> > >MT (movement time) = T3-T1 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >On Tuesday, October 30, 2012 2:26:31 PM UTC-4, Courtney Griffin wrote: 
> > >Hello all, 
> > > 
> > >I am programming my first experiment with E-Prime and have run into 
> > >some issues I was hoping that someone might be able to help with. 
> > >For my experiment I will be having subjects simultaneously hold down 
> > >two keys (u and o), a stimulus is presented and they are to respond 
> > >to it by releasing one of the two keys and making a movement to 
> > >another to respond ({TAB} or {END}). Additionally, I would also like 
> > >to record movement time (time from release of key to response) and 
> > >reaction time (time of release of one of the initial keys). So far I 
> > >have already gone in and allowed both Key Presses and Releases. My 
> > >issue is actually how to get the program to recognize the release of 
> > >the key and start recording the time, so I decided to use the 
> > >Clock.Read function, but I'm not sure exactly how to implement it. 
> > >Any assistance with this would be TRULY appreciated. Here is a bit 
> > >of the code I have come up with, but I know that I am probably 
> > >nowhere near where I need to be: 
> > > 
> > >Dim kbState As Integer 
> > > 
> > >Do 
> > > 
> > >If Keyboard.GetKeyState("u") = ebStatePress And _ 
> > >Keyboard.GetKeyState("o") = ebStatePress Then 
> > > 
> > >If kbState = Keyboard.GetKeyState ("{END}")= 0 Then 
> > >Clock.Read 
> > > 
> > >ElseIf kbState = Keyboard.GetKeyState ("{TAB}") = 1 Then 
> > >Clock.Read - Stimulus.OnsetTime 
> > 
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