<div dir="ltr">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. <div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>So it would look something like this:</div><div><br></div><div>Primary task instruction onset</div><div>--- key letter appears > foot pedal response > key letter disappears, record RT</div><div>--- foil letter appears > no response > foil letter disappears after a given time, record response if incorrect</div><div>--- repeat randomly</div><div>--- Primary task completed > research presses key > record total trial time</div><div>Primary task instruction onset</div><div>etc.</div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>Thanks in advance for your time, </div></div>
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