Sound stimulus obscuring subject response


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Hi, I'm trying to program an experiment where participants have to respond as to the case of a letter (upper case = up arrow (200), lower case = down arrow (208)). On certain trials this will be followed by either a noise blast (.wav) or a stimulus through the parallel port system. 

The normal trials are structured like this: 

<trial green_upper_s>
/stimulustimes = [0= upper_text_green; 400 =whiterectangle]
/trialduration = 1700
/validresponse = (200, 208)
/correctresponse = (200)
</trial>

And these seem to work fine, where regardless of when the subject responds the trial runs for 1.7 seconds, and if they press 'up' there is a 1 in the 'correct' column, and a 200 in the 'response'  column. 

However, when I try to add in the sound: 
<trial green_upper_s>
/stimulustimes = [0= upper_text_green; 400 =whiterectangle; 1400 = noise]
/trialduration = 1700
/validresponse = (200, 208)
/correctresponse = (200)
</trial>

Where the 'noise' stimulus is defined by: 
<sound noise>
/ items = ("beep-14.wav")
</sound>

The trials appear to be running correctly, but in the data file there is just a 0 for response and 0 for correct, no matter how quickly/ slowly I press the response. 

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks! 
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