Turn Time Audit on For Everything

Mon Aug 12 13:04:28 UTC 2013

Great.  Thanks a lot for your help

On Thursday, August 8, 2013 3:52:22 PM UTC-4, Paul Groot wrote:
>
> In addition to David's advise, I would also suggest adding a few lines of 
> E-Basic script to calculate stimulus (and response) onset times that are 
> relative to the start of the start of the MRI scanner. These values can 
> then be added to the output file using the c.SetAttrib method. This is a 
> very easy to do and it will save a lot of post processing. (I've seen 
> people creating lots of excel sheets just to get onset times for SPM or 
> FSL. Very time consuming and error-prone.) 
>
> Just follow these steps:
>
> 1) Declare a global variable to store the scanner start time (i.e. onset 
> time of first EPI scan). This time is normally determined by handling the 
> trigger onset pulse as input response. The global variable should be of 
> type Long (integer) and should be placed in the global user script section:
>
>    Dim ScannerOnset as Long
>
> 2) Then copy the trigger onset time to the global declared variable by 
> adding the following after the object that handles the scanner trigger:
>
>    ScannerOnset = *WaitForScanner*.RTTime
>
> (replace* WaitForScanner* with the name the actual object)
> Also make sure the RTTime attribute itself is logged properly to be able 
> to verify timing.
>
> 3) Add a few lines of script at the end of the trial procedure to save the 
> relative times to the log output:
>
>    c.SetAttrib "*RelStimOnset*", CStr(*Stim*.OnsetTime - ScannerOnset)
>
> (replace *Stim* with the name of the stimulus object)
> Also make sure the onset attribute itself is logged properly to be able to 
> verify timing.
>
> Repeat 3) for all relevant onset and response times.
>
>
> that's it
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 8 August 2013 20:17, David McFarlane <mcfa... at msu.edu <javascript:>>wrote:
>
>> Well, if you are really determined, then you might use Rte.GetObject() to 
>> iterate through all the E-Objects and do as you like (see that topic in the 
>> E-Basic Help facility).
>>
>> But this seems a very peculiar request.  Ordinarily, you would take care 
>> of this in E-Studio from the Property Pages of each object of interest -- 
>> either go to the Duration/Input tab and select the desired Data Logging, or 
>> for finer granularity go to the Logging tab and select whatever you like.
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>> At 8/7/2013 10:30 AM Wednesday, kyleheid... at u.**northwestern.edu<javascript:>wrote:
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>>> I'm new to e-basic, so I don't know if this is possible, but is there 
>>> some way to write an inline file that will turn Time Audit on for 
>>> everything (I'm doing an fMRI study, so it's very important to track all 
>>> the timing information).
>>>
>>> I looked through the generate code and found what appears to be the code 
>>> that turns on time audit for an individual object (in this case a 
>>> TextDisplay called PreBlockInstructions)
>>>
>>> PreBlockInstructions.Run
>>>
>>>       c.SetAttrib PreBlockInstructions.Name & ebDot & 
>>> ebLogNameOnsetDelay, PreBlockInstructions.**OnsetDelay
>>>
>>>       c.SetAttrib PreBlockInstructions.Name & ebDot & 
>>> ebLogNameOnsetTime, PreBlockInstructions.OnsetTime
>>>
>>>       c.SetAttrib PreBlockInstructions.Name & ebDot & 
>>> ebLogNameDurationError, PreBlockInstructions.**DurationError
>>>       c.SetAttrib PreBlockInstructions.Name & ebDot & 
>>> ebLogNameOnsetToOnsetTime, PreBlockInstructions.**OnsetToOnsetTime
>>>
>>>
>>> I would like to make an inline that iterates over every declared 
>>> variable of the TextDisplay type and call code similar to the above on each 
>>> of those TextDisplays.
>>>
>>> Is this possible/feasible?
>>>
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