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Hi Jeremy,
My experiment has 4 groups of experimental items (A, B, C, D; 20 items each) and 1 group of fillers (20 items). I’d like a participant to see one group of experimental items and all of the fillers (40 items total).
The design: for each item/trial, the participant sees a target word and hears a sentence, pressing the spacebar if they hear the target word. Some sentences are followed by comprehension questions.
I currently have two templates that are identical, but one takes items from “test_items” and one takes items from “test_fillers” (these are shortened tables just for testing; the rest of the items are in .csv files). This works, but I find it a little clunky to have two basically identical large chunks of code. Is there a better way to do this? I thought that maybe I could name a template and then do something like getTemplate() with a different table as input, but I’m not sure this is possible.
PennController.ResetPrefix(null); Sequence(shuffle(randomize("items"), randomize("fillers"))) // experimental items for testing AddTable( "test_items" , "group,item,cond2,stimulus,target,sentence,question,answer_1,answer_2,correct\n"+ "A,1,Clash.NoShift,SC_Clash_NoShift_1.wav,target_1_A,question_1_A,WHERE DID THE MEN STOP?,THE DOLLAR STORE,THE CONSTRUCTION SITE,answer_1\n"+ "B,1,Clash.Shift,SC_Clash_Shift_1.wav,target_1_B,question_1_B,WHERE DID THE MEN STOP?,THE DOLLAR STORE,THE CONSTRUCTION SITE,answer_1\n"+ "C,1,NoClash.NoShift,SC_NoClash_NoShift_1.wav,target_1_C,question_1_C,WHERE DID THE MEN STOP?,THE DOLLAR STORE,THE CONSTRUCTION SITE,answer_1\n"+ "D,1,NoClash.Shift,SC_NoClash_Shift_1.wav,target_1_D,question_1_D,WHERE DID THE MEN STOP?,THE DOLLAR STORE,THE CONSTRUCTION SITE,answer_1\n"+ "B,2,Clash.NoShift,SC_Clash_NoShift_2.wav,target_2_B,question_2_B,,,,\n"+ "C,2,Clash.Shift,SC_Clash_Shift_2.wav,target_2_C,question_2_C,,,,,\n"+ "A,2,NoClash.NoShift,SC_NoClash_NoShift_2.wav,target_2_A,question_2_A,,,,,\n"+ "D,2,NoClash.Shift,SC_NoClash_Shift_2.wav,target_2_D,question_2_D,,,,,\n"+ "C,3,Clash.NoShift,SC_Clash_NoShift_3.wav,target_3_C,question_3_C,WAS THE MEAL EXPENSIVE?,YES,NO,answer_1\n"+ "D,3,Clash.Shift,SC_Clash_Shift_3.wav,target_3_D,question_3_D,WAS THE MEAL EXPENSIVE?,YES,NO,answer_1\n"+ "B,3,NoClash.NoShift,SC_NoClash_NoShift_3.wav,target_3_B,question_3_B,WAS THE MEAL EXPENSIVE?,YES,NO,answer_1\n"+ "A,3,NoClash.Shift,SC_NoClash_Shift_3.wav,target_3_A,3_A,WAS THE MEAL EXPENSIVE?,YES,NO,answer_1\n"+ "D,4,Clash.NoShift,SC_Clash_NoShift_4.wav,target_4_D,question_4_D,,,,,\n"+ "A,4,Clash.Shift,SC_Clash_Shift_4.wav,target_4_A,question_4_A,,,,,\n"+ "C,4,NoClash.NoShift,SC_NoClash_NoShift_4.wav,target_4_C,question_4_C,,,,,\n"+ "B,4,NoClash.Shift,SC_NoClash_Shift_4.wav,target_4_B,question_4_B,,,,," ); // filler items for testing AddTable( "test_fillers" , "item,cond2,stimulus,target,sentence,question,answer_1,answer_2,correct\n+"+ "1,filler,filler.wav,filler_1,,,,,n+"+ "2,filler,filler.wav,filler_2,,,,,\n+"+ "3,filler,filler.wav,filler_3,,,,,\n+"+ "4,filler,filler.wav,filler_4,,,,,\n+"+ "5,filler,filler.wav,filler_5,,,,,\n+"+ "6,filler,filler.wav,filler_6,,,,," ); // experimental item trial PennController.Template("test_items", variable => PennController("items", defaultText .center() , // Display target word newText("listen_for", "Listen for:") .settings.css({"width": "300px"}) .italic() , newText("target_word", variable.target) .settings.css({"font-size": "200%", "width": "300px"}) , newText("next", "Press the spacebar to continue.") .settings.css({"width": "300px"}) .italic() , newCanvas(300, 300) .add(0, 100, getText("listen_for")) .add(0, 150, getText("target_word")) .add(0, 250, getText("next")) .print() , newKey(" ") .wait() , clear() , // Play audio stimulus and record reaction time newImage("fixation_cross", "fixation_cross.png") .size(300, 300) , newCanvas(300, 300) .add(0, 0, getImage("fixation_cross")) .print() , newKey("reaction_time", " ") .log("all") , newAudio("stimulus", variable.stimulus) .play() .wait() , clear() , // Comprehension question (variable.question?[newText("question", variable.question) .settings.cssContainer({"width": "600px", "font-size": "150%", "height": "50px"}) , newText("answer_1", variable.answer_1) .settings.cssContainer({"width": "300px"}) , newText("answer_2", variable.answer_2) .settings.cssContainer({"width": "300px"}) , newCanvas(600, 300) .add(0, 150, getText("question")) .add(0, 200, getText("answer_1")) .add(300, 200, getText("answer_2")) .print() , newKey("FJ") .wait() .log() ]:null) ) .log("group", variable.group) .log("item", variable.item) .log("condition", variable.cond2) .log("target", variable.target) .log("correct", variable.correct) ); // Filler item trial PennController.Template("test_fillers", variable => PennController("fillers", defaultText .center() , // Display target word newText("listen_for", "Listen for:") .settings.css({"width": "300px"}) .italic() , newText("target_word", variable.target) .settings.css({"font-size": "200%", "width": "300px"}) , newText("next", "Press the spacebar to continue.") .settings.css({"width": "300px"}) .italic() , newCanvas(300, 300) .add(0, 100, getText("listen_for")) .add(0, 150, getText("target_word")) .add(0, 250, getText("next")) .print() , newKey(" ") .wait() , clear() , // Play audio stimulus and record reaction time newImage("fixation_cross", "fixation_cross.png") .size(300, 300) , newCanvas(300, 300) .add(0, 0, getImage("fixation_cross")) .print() , newKey("reaction_time", " ") .log("all") , newAudio("stimulus", variable.stimulus) .play() .wait() , clear() , // Comprehension question (variable.question?[newText("question", variable.question) .settings.cssContainer({"width": "600px", "font-size": "150%", "height": "50px"}) , newText("answer_1", variable.answer_1) .settings.cssContainer({"width": "300px"}) , newText("answer_2", variable.answer_2) .settings.cssContainer({"width": "300px"}) , newCanvas(600, 300) .add(0, 150, getText("question")) .add(0, 200, getText("answer_1")) .add(300, 200, getText("answer_2")) .print() , newKey("FJ") .wait() .log() ]:null) ) .log("group", variable.group) .log("item", variable.item) .log("condition", variable.cond2) .log("target", variable.target) .log("correct", variable.correct) );Thank you in advance!
Best,
Angelica(Forgot to mention this in the original post, sorry!)
I also thought about modifying the input table such that each of the 4 experimental groups also contains all of the fillers (A: 20 items + 20 fillers, B: 20 items + 20 fillers, C: 20 items + 20 fillers, D: 20 items + 20 fillers), but I think this also relies on a lot of copy-paste.
Hi Angelica,
You can always use regular javascript alongside PennController commands. So you can do this:
customTrial = label => variable => newTrial( label , defaultText .center() , // Display target word newText("listen_for", "Listen for:") .css({"width": "300px"}) .italic() , newText("target_word", variable.target) .css({"font-size": "200%", "width": "300px"}) , newText("next", "Press the spacebar to continue.") .css({"width": "300px"}) .italic() , newCanvas(300, 300) .add(0, 100, getText("listen_for")) .add(0, 150, getText("target_word")) .add(0, 250, getText("next")) .print() , newKey(" ") .wait() , clear() , // Play audio stimulus and record reaction time newImage("fixation_cross", "fixation_cross.png") .size(300, 300) , newCanvas(300, 300) .add(0, 0, getImage("fixation_cross")) .print() , newKey("reaction_time", " ") .log("all") , newAudio("stimulus", variable.stimulus) .play() .wait() , clear() , // Comprehension question (variable.question?[newText("question", variable.question) .cssContainer({"width": "600px", "font-size": "150%", "height": "50px"}) , newText("answer_1", variable.answer_1) .cssContainer({"width": "300px"}) , newText("answer_2", variable.answer_2) .cssContainer({"width": "300px"}) , newCanvas(600, 300) .add(0, 150, getText("question")) .add(0, 200, getText("answer_1")) .add(300, 200, getText("answer_2")) .print() , newKey("FJ") .wait() .log() ]:null) ) .log("group", variable.group) .log("item", variable.item) .log("condition", variable.cond2) .log("target", variable.target) .log("correct", variable.correct)Then you can use it like this:
// experimental item trial Template("test_items", customTrial("items") ) // Filler item trial Template("test_fillers", customTrial("fillers") )Jeremy
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