Transferring information (such as lists) from one E prime program to another

[Joseph Williams]

Hi,

I am programming a memory experiment that involves two separate sessions:
(a) study items and give ratings; and (b) a recognition test that is scored
based on the ratings from the first session. Participants come in for the
first session and rate items, and then each participant comes in on another
day for a separate session and takes a recognition test for the studied
items and lures.

I think this would require two programs.

At study, the first program has to randomly assign 50 of 100 items to be
studied and rated, and 50 of 100 items to be later used as recognition
foils. This combination would be different for every participant. This
program would collect ratings for each of the studied items.

At test, the second program has to present the 50 studied items and the 50
unstudied items, and also has to be given the ratings for each studied item,
so that recognition can be scored as a function of these ratings.

In the first program it's not a problem to randomly assign studied items to
be presented, and not a problem to create a list that specifies which items
were studied and which items should be lures for the recognition test (the
list could include each response rating as an attribute of each item).

If the second program is given a list of studied and unstudied items (with
the ratings accompanying the studied items) it's easy to carry out the
recognition test and then use an analysis file to score recognition by
"binning" the ratings variable or using a filter.

The problem is how to get the information from the first program (which is
very easy to manipulate within that program) as input to a second program.
Are there any suggestions as to how to do this, or to otherwise achieve the
goals of the experiment?

Or is the best option just to manually extract this list from each
individual e-data file (after running the first program), and manually copy
and paste this list into the second program for every subject?

Thanks,

Joseph Williams
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