Design that loops a visual discrimination task while waiting for keyboard input?

[David McFarlane]

Do I understand correctly that your sticking 
point is only how to keep some constant text on 
the display throughout a series of stimuli & 
responses?  If that's all, I have two solutions:

1) The rookie way:  Add the constant text to all 
of the stimulus displays -- either add the full 
literal text into each display, or put the text 
into an attribute and then use the same atribute 
reference in each display.  You would most easily 
do this using Slides for your display objects.

2) My preferred way:  With judicious use of Frame 
Size and Position, and BackStyle Transparent, you 
may add the constant text to a place on the 
screen that just never gets covered up by subsequent stimuli.

Good luck.

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At 11/21/2013 02:10 PM Thursday, Colton Perry wrote:
>Hi all, I hope this isn't something I could have 
>easily figured out by a good Google search, I 
>just haven't been able to find the correct 
>search terms to get what I'm going for here.
>
>I'm trying to implement a design that's a bit 
>beyond my understanding (most of my experience 
>with e-prime has been mostly pretty 
>straight-forward linear presentation stuff). To 
>boil it down to a single trial, I'd like to 
>present a simple visual search/discrimination 
>task alongside a set of verbal instructions. So 
>for example, at the onset of a trial, a text 
>display would appear providing instructions for 
>a primary task to be performed outside of 
>e-prime (these tasks are performed on a 
>motorcycle infotainment system). A short time 
>after the onset of those instructions, the 
>visual discrimination task would begin. So, 
>leaving the instructions on the display, a 
>letter would appear. If this is a key letter, 
>the participant would respond with a key press 
>(well, a foot pedal mapped to a key press "b", 
>but a key press to Eprime). If it's not a key 
>letter, then the participant does nothing and 
>the letter disappears. The part I'm not sure how 
>to accomplish is that after they respond with a 
>key press, I need the discrimination task to 
>repeat itself on average every 5 seconds (so 5 ± 
>2s) while the text display with the instructions 
>remains the same. After the participant 
>completes the primary task on the motorcycle, a 
>researcher would then press a key to end the 
>trial and move on to the next set of instructions.
>
>So it would look something like this:
>
>Primary task instruction onset
>--- key letter appears > foot pedal response > 
>key letter disappears, record RT
>--- foil letter appears > no response > foil 
>letter disappears after a given time, record response if incorrect
>--- repeat randomly
>--- Primary task completed > research presses key > record total trial time
>Primary task instruction onset
>etc.
>
>Does this make sense? Please let me know if I 
>need to provide more information. I'll keep 
>trying different things in the meantime. Most of 
>my experience with Eprime has been in the gui 
>interface rather than the inline commands, so 
>I'm pretty inexperienced on that end, but I'm definitely willing to learn.
>
>Thanks in advance for your time,

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