Controlling exposure duration, inter-trial and inter-stimulus intervals


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Hi Dave,

I have a question concerning control of timing. I have read this: http://www.millisecond.com/support/docs/v5/html/howto/howtocontroltiming.htm. However,  I still have questions.

I have only two trials (containing two stimuli) that I would like to be randomly displayed in one block (12 times, replace and repeat). I do not want the participants to respond to anything. One trial should look like this:

Stimulus 1 (1500ms), ISI (100ms), Stimulus 2 (1500ms). Between two trials, I would like to have an ITI of 1500ms.

The second trial should look accordingly but with different stimuli.

Are the pre- and the posttrialpause attributes, what actually gives me the ITI, so do I have to split it on the two? I know, the ISI is controlled by the stimulustimes, but it never seems to works properly. I think, I probably could work with the parameters, but I do not really understand, how.
Further, the block only seems to work, if I use noreplace, which I don't want...

<trial OWpos>
/ stimulustimes = [1000= picture.FocalOW;  1100= picture.USpos]
/ validresponse = (noresponse)
/ posttrialpause = 500
/ trialduration = 4600
</trial>

<trial YMneg>
/ stimulusframes = [1000 = picture.FocalYM; 1100 = picture.USneg]
/ validresponse = (noresponse)
/ posttrialpause = 500
/ trialduration = 4600
</trial>

<block all>
/ trials = [1-12= noreplace(OWpos, YMneg)]
</block>

Thank you very much in advance,

M.



Edited 8 Years Ago by seandr
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