Stroop experiment, a number of issues to be resolved.

Wed Jul 30 19:10:04 UTC 2008

I apologize for not making a clear separation between the menu code
and the rest of my message.  The menu code begins immediately at the
text that is commented out.

On Jul 30, 2:56 pm, Ben Meyers <benjamin.d.mey... at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2.  To accomplish this you will have to adjust the frame size for all
> of your text displays and then create an image display (whose frame
> does not overlap the text displays ) with the rectangle for the bar
> graph feedback.  Alternatively, (and the easier option imo) is to draw
> the rectangle in an inline.  You can lookup Canvas.Rectangle in the E-
> Basic help for that.  You can handle the reaction time checks in
> another inline as well with "StimDisplay.RT"
>
> 3.  I don't know if this is exactly what you require based upon your
> description, but I wrote up a guide for my lab about creating simple
> menus in E-Prime so you can access which parts of an experiment that
> you want.  I've copied it for you below at the end of my message.
>
> 4.  If you add a counter as either a global variable which you can
> then increment simply by putting in an InLine counter = counter + 1,
> or as an attribute in a list which you can then increment by
>
> counter = CInt(ListName.GetCurrentAttrib("counter"))
> counter = counter + 1
> ListName.SetAttrib "counter", Cstr(counter)
>
> you can check if the counter has been incremented up to the total
> number of training trials and if not
>
> goto LabelAtTheEndOfTheProcedure
>
> Place your feedback display between this inline and the label.
>
> ‘All this code can be copy/pasted into an E-Prime InLine script and
> edited to get the
> ‘menu that you want
> Dim Redo as Integer
> Redo = 1
>
> Do While Redo = 1  ‘Must be made a loop, or after E-Prime runs the
> first procedure the
>                          ‘experiment would automatically end
>
>         Dim Menu as TextDisplay         ‘You can change Menu to whatever you like
>         Set Menu = New TextDisplay      ‘and could presumably set up a sequence
>                                                 ‘of menus with different names if desired
>
> ‘This section sets all the attributes of the menu, many of these can
> be skipped with the
> ‘code    InitTextDisplayDefaults Menu   but all of these can be
> altered if wanted
>
>         Menu.AlignHorizontal = "left" ‘Horizontal alignment “left” “center”
> “right”
>
>         Menu.AlignVertical = "center" ‘Vertical alignment “top” “center”
> “bottom”
>
>         Menu.FontName = "Courier New" ‘Any of the font names E-Prime is
> allowed
>
>         Menu.FontBold = False           ‘Bold is the default, this makes it not bold
>
>         Menu.FontSize = "28"          ‘Font size supplied as a string
>
>         Menu.ForeColor = CColor("0,0,0")      ‘This is the text color, can use
> color names
>                                                 ‘or RGB values, CColor converts it to Long
>
>         Menu.BackColor = CColor("255,255,255")        ‘Background color
>
>         Menu.Duration = CLng("-1")            ‘Sets how long the menu will appear on
> the
>                                                 ‘screen.  A –1 is an infinite duration.
>
>         Menu.TimingMode = ebTimingModeEvent             ‘Sets the timing mode:
>         ‘others allowed ebTimingModeCumulative and ebTimingModeCustom
>         ‘If custom is used CustomOnsetTime and CustomOffsetTime must be set
>
>         Menu.PreRelease = 0             ‘Sets prerelease time for the next object
>
>         Menu.ClearAfter = True  ‘Not clearing after is default, this clears
> the screen
>                                         ‘when the menu is terminated
>
> ‘Set up the input mask for the menu, the required inputs are all comma
> delimited
>         Menu.InputMasks.Reset
>         Menu.InputMasks.Add Keyboard.CreateInputMask("1234", "",
> CLng(Menu.Duration), CLng("1"), ebEndResponseActionTerminate, True,
> "", "", "")
>
> ‘InputDevice.CreateInputMask (Allowable Response, Correct Response,
> Time Limit,
> ‘Max Count, End Response Action, Flush Input Buffer, Termination
> Response,
> ‘User Tag, Custom Options, Echo Clients, Reserved Object)
> ‘For more specific information about these attributes check the E-
> Basic help
>
> ‘Sets the text to be displayed in the menu.  New lines are made with
> \n.
>         Menu.Text = "    1)  Procedure1\n    2)  Procedure2\n    3)
> Procedure3\n    4)  Quit"
>
> Menu.Run        ‘Runs the menu with the attributes set above
>
> ‘This section selects the procedure to be run based upon the keyboard
> input.  All
> ‘the procedures are found in a superior list and are each assigned a
> Weight of 0.
> ‘The list will also have 1 row which called the procedure to create
> the menu with a
> ‘Weight of 1.
>         If CInt(Menu.RESP) = 1 Then
>                 Procedure1.Run c
>         ElseIf CInt(Menu.RESP) = 2 Then
>                 Procedure2.Run c
>         Elseif CInt(Menu.RESP) = 3 Then
>                 Procedure3.Run c
>         Else
>                 Quit.Run c
>                 Redo = 0
>         End If
>
> Loop
>
> On Jul 24, 10:53 pm, Psychologue <fahadahmad... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi Everyone,
>
> > I am assisting a Master's student with a stroop experiment. I was able
> > to set up the six training sessions with each consisting of three
> > phases.There are also three conditions in terms of degree of feedback
> > of performance.
> > My questions which I need answered:
>
> > 1.I would have to set up six blocks(or blocklists) representing the
> > six training sessions?
>
> > *2.However, In one condition(a seperate e-prime experiment) same setup
> > in terms of training sessions and phases but with feedback(the
> > Individualized and adaptive feedback condition). -"This condition has
> > a bar graph that remains displayed throughout the entire training
> > session and keeps track of current performance relative to the average
> > of previous performance on the same type of trial (i.e. if the
> > participant's reaction time on the third neutral trial is 1500ms and
> > the average of the first two neutral trials is 900ms, the bar graph
> > for neutral trials should increase in size and turn red)". How would I
> > code this in E-Prime?*
>
> > 3.There are six training sessions in total. So there are  six blocks
> > in the Stroop experiment. Training session 1(contains acquisition
> > phase,practice phase and test phase), Training session 2(contains
> > acquisition, practice and test phase) , and so on (same thing).
> > My question is if the the participant is doing ONLY Training session
> > 2, how to run only that particular training session or the particular
> > block of code or block in the stroop experiment?Do you have to code in
> > the visual basic script to tell E-Prime to only run that particular
> > session? I don't know how to do this.
>
> > 4. If I want summary feedback which displays the subjects average
> > response time and the average percent correct at the very end of the
> > testing phase for a training session.
> > How would I do this. The feedback display would be only displayed at
> > the end of the testing phase, and display average response time and
> > average response times of subjects performance on all the trials in
> > the testing phase. There should be no feedback displays in between
> > trials.
>
> > Any Help is much appreciated
> > Thank you
> > Fahad- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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