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I was interested in downloading the hearts and flowers task from here for inquist 7 lab mouse, touchscreen version. (https://www.millisecond.com/download/library/heartsandflowerstask). For the purpose of my experiment, I was wondering if there was a way to go forward by pressing any key on the keyboard during test trials. This is because we will have children respond differently and just want to be able to press a button to move forward to the next trial. 

I did see that we have a keyboard version, but we prefer the stimuli and presentation of the touch screen version. Could you let me know if and how we can program a button to move to the next trial?

Thank you!

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sbashyam - 11/20/2025

I was interested in downloading the hearts and flowers task from here for inquist 7 lab mouse, touchscreen version. (https://www.millisecond.com/download/library/heartsandflowerstask). For the purpose of my experiment, I was wondering if there was a way to go forward by pressing any key on the keyboard during test trials. This is because we will have children respond differently and just want to be able to press a button to move forward to the next trial. 

I did see that we have a keyboard version, but we prefer the stimuli and presentation of the touch screen version. Could you let me know if and how we can program a button to move to the next trial?

Thank you!

Sorry, I'm confused by your question. On the one hand you write of wanting "a way to go forward by pressing any key on the keyboard during test trials." whereas later you refer to the mouse / touchscreen version and wanting to "program a button to move to the next trial:"

(a) Which is it? Any key or an on-screen button. Note that you cannot have both keyboard and mouse/touch input at the same time.
(b) Which key or button? How is this supposed to look and work. This is particularly unclear to me for the touchscreen version, which of course already has buttons, for the responses, pressing of which will move to the next trial. (Also, if there is no response within a configurable amount of time, the current trial ends and the next trial begins automatically.)

+x

 

Dave - 11/20/2025

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sbashyam - 11/20/2025

I was interested in downloading the hearts and flowers task from here for inquist 7 lab mouse, touchscreen version. (https://www.millisecond.com/download/library/heartsandflowerstask). For the purpose of my experiment, I was wondering if there was a way to go forward by pressing any key on the keyboard during test trials. This is because we will have children respond differently and just want to be able to press a button to move forward to the next trial. 

I did see that we have a keyboard version, but we prefer the stimuli and presentation of the touch screen version. Could you let me know if and how we can program a button to move to the next trial?

Thank you!

Sorry, I'm confused by your question. On the one hand you write of wanting "a way to go forward by pressing any key on the keyboard during test trials." whereas later you refer to the mouse / touchscreen version and wanting to "program a button to move to the next trial:"

(a) Which is it? Any key or an on-screen button. Note that you cannot have both keyboard and mouse/touch input at the same time.
(b) Which key or button? How is this supposed to look and work. This is particularly unclear to me for the touchscreen version, which of course already has buttons, for the responses, pressing of which will move to the next trial. (Also, if there is no response within a configurable amount of time, the current trial ends and the next trial begins automatically.)

Hi Dave,

Thank you for getting back to me. I did not realise that we cannot have both at thee same time. If that is the case would it possible to just use the keyboard (keys A and L for the corresponding sides). It needs to essentially look exactly as the task is programmed right now, I only want to update the input for the touchscreen version to keyboard. I understand that there is a keyboard version available, however that does not work for my study.
Thank yo

+x

 

sbashyam - 11/21/2025

+x

 

Dave - 11/20/2025

+x

 

sbashyam - 11/20/2025

I was interested in downloading the hearts and flowers task from here for inquist 7 lab mouse, touchscreen version. (https://www.millisecond.com/download/library/heartsandflowerstask). For the purpose of my experiment, I was wondering if there was a way to go forward by pressing any key on the keyboard during test trials. This is because we will have children respond differently and just want to be able to press a button to move forward to the next trial. 

I did see that we have a keyboard version, but we prefer the stimuli and presentation of the touch screen version. Could you let me know if and how we can program a button to move to the next trial?

Thank you!

Sorry, I'm confused by your question. On the one hand you write of wanting "a way to go forward by pressing any key on the keyboard during test trials." whereas later you refer to the mouse / touchscreen version and wanting to "program a button to move to the next trial:"

(a) Which is it? Any key or an on-screen button. Note that you cannot have both keyboard and mouse/touch input at the same time.
(b) Which key or button? How is this supposed to look and work. This is particularly unclear to me for the touchscreen version, which of course already has buttons, for the responses, pressing of which will move to the next trial. (Also, if there is no response within a configurable amount of time, the current trial ends and the next trial begins automatically.)

Hi Dave,

Thank you for getting back to me. I did not realise that we cannot have both at thee same time. If that is the case would it possible to just use the keyboard (keys A and L for the corresponding sides). It needs to essentially look exactly as the task is programmed right now, I only want to update the input for the touchscreen version to keyboard. I understand that there is a keyboard version available, however that does not work for my study.
Thank yo

What about the keyboard version doesn't work for you and why? Probably easier to change that instead of re-engenering the mouse version.

+x

 

Dave - 11/21/2025

+x

 

sbashyam - 11/21/2025

+x

 

Dave - 11/20/2025

+x

 

sbashyam - 11/20/2025

I was interested in downloading the hearts and flowers task from here for inquist 7 lab mouse, touchscreen version. (https://www.millisecond.com/download/library/heartsandflowerstask). For the purpose of my experiment, I was wondering if there was a way to go forward by pressing any key on the keyboard during test trials. This is because we will have children respond differently and just want to be able to press a button to move forward to the next trial. 

I did see that we have a keyboard version, but we prefer the stimuli and presentation of the touch screen version. Could you let me know if and how we can program a button to move to the next trial?

Thank you!

Sorry, I'm confused by your question. On the one hand you write of wanting "a way to go forward by pressing any key on the keyboard during test trials." whereas later you refer to the mouse / touchscreen version and wanting to "program a button to move to the next trial:"

(a) Which is it? Any key or an on-screen button. Note that you cannot have both keyboard and mouse/touch input at the same time.
(b) Which key or button? How is this supposed to look and work. This is particularly unclear to me for the touchscreen version, which of course already has buttons, for the responses, pressing of which will move to the next trial. (Also, if there is no response within a configurable amount of time, the current trial ends and the next trial begins automatically.)

Hi Dave,

Thank you for getting back to me. I did not realise that we cannot have both at thee same time. If that is the case would it possible to just use the keyboard (keys A and L for the corresponding sides). It needs to essentially look exactly as the task is programmed right now, I only want to update the input for the touchscreen version to keyboard. I understand that there is a keyboard version available, however that does not work for my study.
Thank yo

What about the keyboard version doesn't work for you and why? Probably easier to change that instead of re-engenering the mouse version.

I prefer the pictures/icons used in the touch screen version. Do not want to show children pictures of the keyboard (as in the keyboard version), but prefer the pictures of the rectangle (blue and yellow, as in the touchscreen version). Thank you!

+x

 

sbashyam - 11/21/2025

+x

 

Dave - 11/21/2025

+x

 

sbashyam - 11/21/2025

+x

 

Dave - 11/20/2025

+x

 

sbashyam - 11/20/2025

I was interested in downloading the hearts and flowers task from here for inquist 7 lab mouse, touchscreen version. (https://www.millisecond.com/download/library/heartsandflowerstask). For the purpose of my experiment, I was wondering if there was a way to go forward by pressing any key on the keyboard during test trials. This is because we will have children respond differently and just want to be able to press a button to move forward to the next trial. 

I did see that we have a keyboard version, but we prefer the stimuli and presentation of the touch screen version. Could you let me know if and how we can program a button to move to the next trial?

Thank you!

Sorry, I'm confused by your question. On the one hand you write of wanting "a way to go forward by pressing any key on the keyboard during test trials." whereas later you refer to the mouse / touchscreen version and wanting to "program a button to move to the next trial:"

(a) Which is it? Any key or an on-screen button. Note that you cannot have both keyboard and mouse/touch input at the same time.
(b) Which key or button? How is this supposed to look and work. This is particularly unclear to me for the touchscreen version, which of course already has buttons, for the responses, pressing of which will move to the next trial. (Also, if there is no response within a configurable amount of time, the current trial ends and the next trial begins automatically.)

Hi Dave,

Thank you for getting back to me. I did not realise that we cannot have both at thee same time. If that is the case would it possible to just use the keyboard (keys A and L for the corresponding sides). It needs to essentially look exactly as the task is programmed right now, I only want to update the input for the touchscreen version to keyboard. I understand that there is a keyboard version available, however that does not work for my study.
Thank yo

What about the keyboard version doesn't work for you and why? Probably easier to change that instead of re-engenering the mouse version.

I prefer the pictures/icons used in the touch screen version. Do not want to show children pictures of the keyboard (as in the keyboard version), but prefer the pictures of the rectangle (blue and yellow, as in the touchscreen version). Thank you!

That is not very clear.

- "I prefer the pictures/icons used in the touch screen version"

Which pictures and icons specifically? They are largely the same in both versions, so this is confusing.

- "Do not want to show children pictures of the keyboard"

Then simply edit the instructions according to your liking / make them more similar to the touchscreen/mouse version. You have both available to you, so this should be easy for you to do. Both versions are virtually identical in terms of structure.

- " but prefer the pictures of the rectangle (blue and yellow, as in the touchscreen version)."

Not sure what you mean here. Do you mean the on-screen buttons participants have to touch / click? How does having these make sense in a keyboard-driven version? What function are they supposed to serve?

Hi Dave,

Thank you for your response and let me try to be more specific. We are having children respond to the task verbally so want to show them what side of the screen associates with the correct answer, while the research assistants are going to be responding on the keyboard. Since it’s easier for RAs to press keys, I was hoping there was a way to program that. Thank you for your suggestion on editing the keyboard version. Is it possible to edit it from the mouse/touch version?

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sbashyam - 11/21/2025

Hi Dave,Thank you for your response and let me try to be more specific. We are having children respond to the task verbally so want to show them what side of the screen associates with the correct answer, while the research assistants are going to be responding on the keyboard. Since it’s easier for RAs to press keys, I was hoping there was a way to program that. Thank you for your suggestion on editing the keyboard version. Is it possible to edit it from the mouse/touch version?

You can find a hybrid of the keyboard and touch versions attached below. Instructions are those from the touchscreen version. You'll have to adjust wording as needed. Navigating instructions is via the spacebar and the A & L keys. Practice and test trials look like those in the touchscreen version, but take keyboard input (A & L) keys.

For general background and so you can make further modifications yourself, please work through the Programmer's Manual ( https://www.millisecond.com/support/Inquisit%20Programmer's%20Manual.pdf ). Then work through the H & F task code untll you sufficiently understand how it works.