Hi there,
I'm currently playing around with the trial version of Inquisit to decide if it will suit my needs for my research. After playing around some, I'm left with a few questions.
I want to set up a basic change detection task with the trial sequence being something like this:
Fixation -> 1-4 images appear (e.g., choosing 1-4 colored squares from a larger set of squares) at randomly selected locations -> A blank interval or a mask appears -> 1-4 images appear again in the same locations with one of them cued by a pink square and participants respond if the cued item has changed (i.e., is the cued square the same color)
My primary concerns are:
1) It seems the ability to set/manipulate positions of images is somewhat limited. Is it possible to, say, create 16 positions then randomly assign the images to them? Or just have the program randomly assign a position within a set space (e.g., the center of the screen)? And then how do you maintain those positions from study to test?
2) I didn't see a clear way to cue an item at test?
3) In the future I'd like to use a more complicated stimulus set such as real world objects. That would mean a couple hundred image files to deal with. Is there any way to automate adding image files (say referencing a folder with all the image files)?
I didn't see these kinds of questions in any of the example scripts or on the forums. I have some programming experience using other software and sometimes that makes it hard to adapt to a different language. Thanks in advance!