<div dir="ltr">Hi David,<div><br></div><div>Thank you for sharing your experiences and suggestions. I have basically started from the scratch here. We already had the pre-designed experiments in Presentation format but now those need to be re-designed in E-prime as our previous collaborator used presentation for fMRI Exam. Our new collaborator have a 3T MRI that came with E-prime package so I am assuming they have Professional version. I have to design the experiment and forward them in order to conduct subject trials. I have gone through E-prime getting started guide but I still lack in understanding the process of designing an experiment. I will go trough youtube tutorials and see what ideas can I get for designing the experiment.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div>Warmest Regards,</div><div>Dilip</div><div><br></div><div><br><br>On Tuesday, 25 March 2014 05:56:02 UTC+8, McFarlane, David wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0;margin-left: 0.8ex;border-left: 1px #ccc solid;padding-left: 1ex;">DIlip,
<br>
<br>1) I have never tried this, but I did dabble a bit with Presentation
<br>some time ago and did not see any automated way to make a conversion
<br>to E-Prime. Also, we had a researcher who started here several years
<br>ago come with Presentation, he switched to E-Prime and his lab just
<br>wrote whatever they needed from scratch in E-Prime, so that might
<br>give you a clue.
<br>
<br>2) Definitely, beyond a doubt, spend the extra money for the
<br>Professional edition! PST has misnamed these: "Standard" is really
<br>the "Base" model, like the base model of a car that almost no
<br>customers actually buy -- get "Standard" only if you intend to never
<br>do any extensive work with E-Prime, and will never, ever, collaborate
<br>with any other lab, ever! -- E.g., possibly suitable for some
<br>teaching labs that cannot afford the extra $200/license. By
<br>contrast, "Professional" is the true Standard -- ALL research labs
<br>should spend the extra money for the Professional edition, and
<br>furthermore should make all their programs using the Professional
<br>file format in order to take advantage of a wealth of features &
<br>programming niceties that then become available (e.g., Experiment
<br>Advisor, speed testing mode with Auto Response, multiple correct
<br>responses, Task Events). Note that your Professional .es2 files may
<br>create problems for colloborators who did not spend the extra money
<br>for Professional (see warning above about using the "base" model),
<br>but we must not lower our standards just to suit a few potential cheapskates.
<br>
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<br>David McFarlane
<br>E-Prime training
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<br>
<br>At 3/23/2014 09:04 PM Sunday, Dilip Kumar wrote:
<br>>1) Can someone tell met if it is possible to convert Presentation
<br>>experiment into E-prime format? If yes then it would be highly
<br>>appreciable if you can tell me the procedure. I have googled it and
<br>>realized it is not possible, the only thing I can do here is to
<br>>re-design the experiments in E-prime. Kindly correct me if I am wrong.
<br>>
<br>>2) I am using E-prime trial version to explore the tool. I have to
<br>>purchase a licensed version but I am confused whether to but E-prime
<br>>Standard or Professional version. The hospital where experiments
<br>>would be conducted already have E-prime setup for fMRI. I only have
<br>>to use it for designing experiments and practice for subjects before
<br>>conducting experiments.
<br>>Any suggestions...???
<br>>
<br>>Thanks.
<br>>
<br>>Best Regards,
<br>>DIlip
<br>
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