How to avoid presenting targets consecutively

[Hester Duffy]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 5:27 PM, David McFarlane <mcfarla9 at msu.edu> wrote:

> At 7/22/2011 12:14 PM Friday, you wrote:
>
>> Furthermore, I don't know how to generate a trial sequence. Is there a
>> command for that?
>>
>
> Many of us use something as basic as an Excel worksheet, or maybe a script
> written in Perl or whatever.  Basically, I think Michiel just meant to build
> a trial list *outside* of E-Prime.
>
> From there you could either manually look at the generated trial list and
> manually make adjustments until it meets your criteria, or use some Excel
> forumulas or macros or a Perl script or whatever to do that for you.  No,
> probably not trivial, but there you go.  Folks like us have struggled with
> this for decades, just browse through the scientific literature.
>

There's a free piece of software called Mix which does this sort of thing;
you can download it from
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/maarten.van-casteren/mixandmatch.html.

H

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