<div>Yes, Presentation is better for this type of experiment, however, the Presentation script was generated in a different lab and the lab I am working in is not set up to use Presentation (requires a serial port connection for which we have had issues with timing). So, you are 100% correct, I have been jumping through complicated hoops for more time than I will admit and while I have made progress the motion stim for this experiment is just crazy difficult to figure out. Today I was going to attempt to increase the duration of stimulus presentation to see if it is a loading issue. Will let you know but any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 1:26 PM, David McFarlane <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mcfarla9@msu.edu">mcfarla9@msu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Lisa,<br><br>OK, I will ask the obvious dumb question. If you already have a program that works in Presentation, why would you want to recreate it in E-Prime? Although in principle E-Prime should be able to handle this, it may require jumping through a lot of complicated hoops, and it seems to me that Presentation makes a better platform for this type of task.<br>
<br>-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
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<div class="h5"><br><br><br>At 8/16/2011 11:24 PM Tuesday, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I am looking to replicate an experiment originally created in Presentation for use with EPrime, part of an EEG experiment. The original experiment used that software’s programming language to create a color and motion stimulus that allowed the researchers to compare the parvocellular and magnocellular visual pathways. I do not know EBasic and so I have created the color stim in Photoshop and imported the image as a slide. While I am not able to control luminance it appears very close to the original. The motion stim is proving much more complicated. I created a vertically oriented sinusoidal spatial frequency grating as an animation file in Final Cut (editing software) and have been struggling ever since to make it work as intended.<br>
<br>The experiment calls for a low frequency grating to traverse from left to right for 100ms with inter-stimulus intervals anywhere from 500 ms to 1000ms. Because the stimulus presentation is so short I don’t seem to be able to use the video start/stop feature; additionally, randomizing the ISI is not possible using this feature. I determined that one cycle of the animation sequence is 31 frames and with a 60 frame per second animation that means that I have 10 six frame sets per second (each set 100ms). I then created 6 frame .avi files and loaded them sequentially. Because the experiment calls for 320 trials I had the choice to load 320 files or create a loop with 5 six frame sets, I opted for the loop. To allow for the randomized ISI intervals I created jpeg files containing the final frame of each set and then finished the sequence with my one remaining frame (5 six frame sets plus one final still, making 31 frames).<br>
<br>After loading the movie/still files (sequentially) it seems that even though the stills(jpegs) were captured from the animation frames they are not similar in size, so I have an inconsistency there – issue one. The other issue is that the two images (movie/still) overlap rather than following in sequence. One appears inside the other and the error message I get once I abort is “unable to update frame.” I did eliminate the 500ms ISI but that has not helped. I also tried to eliminated the jpeg files but then I can only randomize the duration of the motion which should be consistent at 100ms intervals. It is the time between presentations that should randomly fall within 500 to 100ms.<br>
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