Continuous sound during Go/No-Go task

[Paul Gr]

Hello Lauren,

By using some inline scripting it should be possible to configure the EPrime 
Sound object to play in the background. I posted a piece of example script 
about a year ago: 
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0504c&L=eprime&P=85
I'm not sure about the maximum allowed length of the sound file though!

The previous post also contains an example of playing an audio file by using 
the Windows multimedia libraries directly. For background sounds this is 
probably the prefered method.

best,
Paul Groot
Vrije Universiteit

>From: Lauren Killeen <lak286 at psu.edu>
>To: <eprime at mail.talkbank.org>
>Subject: Continuous sound during Go/No-Go task
>Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 16:02:41 -0400
>
>Hello,
>
>I am trying to figure out how to add a continuous sound file to a Go/No-Go
>E-Prime task in which participants are instructed to hit a button each time
>they see a letter, but not if the same letter was presented immediately
>before.  There are 120 trials/block, and I would like participants to 
>either
>hear the sound of an infant crying starting at the 60th trial (so half-way
>through the task) and ending with the final trial, or starting at the
>beginning of a block but ending at the 60th trial.
>
>How can I integrate this 1.5-2 minute sound file into the E-Prime task so
>that it turns on and off at the correct time?
>
>Any advice would be greatly appreciated as we¹ve really struggled with 
>this!
>
>Thanks,
>Lauren Killeen