I am attempting to run a bilingual experiment measuring short-term memory reaction times of bilingual Chinese/English speakers. The format of my experiment is similar to that of the Sternberg task with the exception that alternating Chinese/English words will be utilized and Chinese-only and English-only words would be used as controls. Currently, I am trying to run one trial but I keep on receiving an error regarding stimulustimes "/stimulustimes: Could not locate element "书包" . At first I thought that the error was related to the Chinese word, but after I deleted all the Chinese words and just used the English words, the same error occurred. I will greatly appreciate it if anyone is able to provide a solution to this error. Thanks! Below is my current Inquisit Script.:
<item eight alternating words>
/ 0="书包"
/ 1="scissors"
/ 2="灯泡"
/ 3="laptop"
/ 4="海鸥"
/ 5="ostrich"
/ 6="手表"
/ 7="microwave"
/ 8="#"
/ 9="ruler"
</item>= (trial trialone)
<trial trialone>
/ stimulustimes = [0=书包; 1500=scissors; 3000=灯泡; 4500=laptop; 6000=海鸥; 7500=ostrich; 9000=手表; 10500=microwave; 12000=#; 15000=ruler]
/ responsetime = 15000
/ response = timeout (60000)
/ inputdevice = keyboard
/ validresponse = ("f", "j")
/ correctresponse = ("j")
</trial>