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Linus	Linus posted 11 Years Ago Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 3, Visits: 19	Hi! I am doing a picture-based IAT and I keep getting the error message: /items: Unable to load the picture "C:\Users\Desktop\stimuli_neutral & stimuli_negative" Verify that the file exists and is of a supported format. The file with the target pictures is saved on my desktop (in the same file as the experiment I am doing) and all pictures are in jepg format atm this part of my experiment looks like this: <item stimuli_neutral> /1 = "sb1_MNES_5_0.jpg" /2 = "sb1_MNES_5_1.jpg" /3 = "sb1_MNES_5_2.jpg" /4 = "sb1_MNES_5_3.jpg" /5 ="sb1_MNES_5_4.jpg" /6 = "sb1_MNES_5_5.jpg" /7 ="sb1_MNES_5_6.jpg" /8 ="sb1_MNES_5_7.jpg" /9 ="sb1_MNES_5_8.jpg" /10 ="sb1_MNES_5_9.jpg" </item> <item stimuli_negative> /1 = "sb1_MNES_5_0_neg.jpg" /2 = "sb1_MNES_5_1_neg.jpg" /3 = "sb1_MNES_5_2_neg.jpg" /4 = "sb1_MNES_5_3_neg.jpg" /5 = "sb1_MNES_5_4_neg.jpg" /6 = "sb1_MNES_5_5_neg.jpg" /7 = "sb1_MNES_5_6_neg.jpg" /8 = "sb1_MNES_5_7_neg.jpg" /9 = "sb1_MNES_5_8_neg.jpg" /10 = "sb1_MNES_5_9_neg.jpg" </item> <picture paradigm> /items = ("stimuli_neutral & stimuli_negative") /position = (50, 50) </picture> If anyone could help me out that'd be so great!! Tags error-message
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Dave	Dave posted 11 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 105K	<picture paradigm> /items = ("stimuli_neutral & stimuli_negative") /position = (50, 50) </picture> That's simply not valid Inquisit syntax. If you want to refer to an <item> element, you ought to do /items = nameofitemelement and you cannot refer to multiple <item> elements as it appears you are trying to do. I recommend you work through the picture IAT tutorial included in the Inquisit documentation for further practical examples.
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