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adding rest periods to blocks

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By charlottebooth - 12/18/2014

Hi,

I am making a dot-probe task and I would like to have just one block but I would like to include two rest periods after every 56 trials.

How can I do this?

Many thanks,

Charlotte
By Dave - 12/18/2014

You set up a <trial> element that represents your rest period

<trial restperiod>
/ stimulusframes = [1=pleaserestmessage]
...
</trial>

and run it at the desired times via your <block>'s /trials attribute:

<block myblock>
/ trials = [1-56, 58-113, 115-170 = noreplace(yourdotprobetrials, ....); 57, 114 =restperiod]
...
</block>