Participants=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=B4_?=response via space key

[Claudia]

Thanks liw!
I´ll follow your advice....hoping for the best :-)
Claudia

On May 27, 10:36 am, liwenna <liwe... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Claudia,
>
> My bad... There was this little nagging voice in my head yesterday
> saying that something wouldn't work about what I wrote... and this is
> probably it :p
>
> Maybe I was mistaken by advicing you to use "". Brandon's post in this
> thread on the PST forums (http://www.pstnet.com/forum/
> Topic1311-5-1.aspx#bm1824) makes me thinkt that, while "" is used for
> a 'no-response' when writing inline code, it is not needed to place
> the brackets around the 'nothing' when the cresp is defined in a
> list.
>
> So... first try removing the "" and run the task with {SPACE} in the
> go trials and nothing in the nogo trials, if that doesn't work then
> try expanding the collection of allowed responses to {ANY}. In the
> current set-up the program checks to see if "" (cresp) is part of
> {SPACE} (allowed responses) which it obviously isn't. By allowing any
> key Pp can also press other buttons than spacebar but chances of them
> doing that aren't that big...
>
> Best,
>
> liw
>
> On May 26, 9:39 pm, Claudia <0702clau... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The error message says "Run-time Error (Line 438) 10018: Correct
> > Response is not part of Allowable" which - according to the cursor on
> > my screen, is the last line in the script-segment I sent earlier. I
> > have set the Time limit, and checked carefully that {SPACE} is
> > correctly written both in the appropriate attribute column and in the
> > "Allowed response" box. I am not sure if you could get a better idea
> > of the possible problem if I send you a longer segment of
> > script,.....or would you have any other suggestion?
>
> > Thank you very much for your help,
> > Claudia
>
> > On May 26, 5:34 pm, David McFarlane <mcfar... at msu.edu> wrote:
>
> > > Claudia,
>
> > > You and liw are already working this out.  I just wanted to add that
> > > you can get more information about using special characters for
> > > Allowable and Correct by looking at the "(key} nomenclature" topic in
> > > the E-Basic Help facility.  Also to reiterate that to accept "no
> > > response" as a "response" you logically need to set a Duration for
> > > the stimulus to expire, and a Time Limit for the input mask that gets
> > > the response (typically leave that at (same as duration), unless you
> > > want to use "Extended Input" -- work through Appendix C of the User's
> > > Guide that came with E-Prime).
>
> > > -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
>
> > > At 5/25/2011 03:21 PM Wednesday, you wrote:
>
> > > >Hi,
>
> > > >I am very new to e-prime and, after having spent hours pouring on the
> > > >manuals, I have yet to find the solution to a likely elementary (!)
> > > >matter: How do I make the software accept 1) that the space key is an
> > > >"Allowed response", and 2) that absence of response is also an
> > > >"Allowed response". My experiment is a visual recognition task in
> > > >which my participants are supposed to press 'space bar' only if the
> > > >target flashed on screen (i.e. a triangle) has been preceded by some
> > > >specific stimuli, but not to press anything at all if the rule is not
> > > >met.
>
> > > >Thank you in advance for your help,
> > > >Claudia

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