Insert a pause

Alice

Hi everyone, I am new on Opensesame and I'm trying to insert pauses during my experience. The idea is to have a moment to rest before going on with the rest of the stimuli.
In the design of my loop, I've put a special colon and rows for pauses, but I don't know how to fill cells of those rows. I tried to put some "0", meaning that there is no stimulus for this row, but it's not working, I have a " "0" item doesn't exist" message.

Can you please help me ? I think it's a very simple issu but I just can't resolve it.
Thank you

Alice

Josh

Hi Alice, you could insert a sketchpad somewhere, with keypress as the duration. In the sketchpad you can insert something like a break instruction. You can place this sketchpad between blocks (if you have multiple blocks and you want to break in between these blocks), or rather in your trial sequence. In case of the latter, you of course don't want to break every single trial, so you have to indicate a run-if statement. Clicking on the trial sequence item, you can enter a specific run-if statement for the sketchpad, e.g. =self.get('count_trial_trigger')%50 == 0, if you want to break every 50 trials.

Cheers

Josh

AdrianaMartins

Hi,

I am trying to build a go/no-go task, I have 3 different paradigms into a block sequence and I would like to add to pauses in between the paradigms. Can somebody help with that? Also, not regarding the pauses but with the paradigms, I am having trouble trying to randomize the 3 paradigms, it always appears in the same order, any advices?

Thank you in advance!

Kind regards,

Adriana