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Dave	Dave posted 8 Years Ago ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Administrators Posts: 13K, Visits: 104K	Re. #1: Yes. You can do something like <values> / randomiti = 0 ... </values> with <trial iti> / ontrialbegin = [values.randomiti = round(rand(400,500))] ... / trialduration = values.randomiti ... </trial> /pre- and /posttrialpause, /timeout and /trialduration all accept values which you can set at will via /ontrialbegin etc. For the relationship between the various timing components involved in a <trial> see the "How to Control Trial Duration and Inter-Trial Intervals" topic in the documentation. Re. #2: Not sure why you would need any elaborate /branch logic, but the question is underspecified. For example, it's not clear if the "specific response" is the only allowed response; if not, you cannot possibly know how many times a participant will actually provide the "specific response", i.e., it may not even be possible to achieve the 80/20 split. Suppose the participant only provides the "specific" response twice across however many trials you have: You could at best achieve a 50/50 split in that situation. If, otoh, there is only that single "specific response", you can simply do <block someblock> / trials = [1-10 = noreplace(rewardtrial, rewardtrial, rewardtrial, rewardtrial, norewardtrial)] ... </block> which will run 8 "reward" trials and 2 "no reward" trials. No branching required. Edited 8 Years Ago by Dave
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*JayD*	*JayD* posted 8 Years Ago Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 17, Visits: 67	Hi, I have a couple of questions 1) Is it possible to randomize a trial's duration (either using /trialduration or /response = timeout ())? I want to try and have my intertrial interval randomly vary between 500ms and 400ms on any given trial. 2) I want a particular (mouse-click) response to give participants a 'reward' feedback trial on 80% of trials, while presenting the same mouse-click with a different 'no-reward' feedback trial on the other 20%. I'm not sure how to go about building in these percentages into the branch trials. What's the best way to do this? Thanks, Jay Tags branching trialduration
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