add an small sentence before each block

Julliette

I have a block design experiment. Before each block, I want to introduce a rule in a sentence in order to help to the participant to answer the questions.

In the stimuli excel file, in the last column, I have mentioned the rule for each block.
For the better understanding of the code, I would like to explain the structure of data.csv file. Here is an example of the rows and columns in the data.csv file:

           word_A    word_B     rule(a sentence)
           book          pen         "move the mouse towards the right"

Here is the structure of the code ( I removed unnecessary parts).

    for trials in [data[x:x+7] for x in range(0, len(data), 7)]: % each 7 words are one block
        b = expyriment.design.Block()

              #################my comment##################
               (??) I would like to represent the rule of the block here

              ################
        for trial in trials:
            t = expyriment.design.Trial()
            stim1 = expyriment.stimuli.TextLine(text=trial[0], position=(0,200), text_size=32)
                     stim1 = expyriment.stimuli.TextLine(text=trial[1], position=(0,200), text_size=32)
            canvas = expyriment.stimuli.Canvas(size=(600, 600))
            stim1.plot(canvas)    

            canvas.preload() 
            t.add_stimulus(canvas)
            b.add_trial(t)
        exp.add_block(b)


        for block in exp.blocks:
                   brt=block_rule.present()  ## here I expect block rule
                  exp.clock.wait(2000-brt) 
                 for trial in block.trials:
                      st=trial.stimuli[0].present()
                       response_keys, rt = exp.keyboard.wait.....

The blocks rule is in the "trial[2]". This rule is defined after where "b" is defined. looking back to how "exp.block" I could not figure out how I could mention the rule of the block before each block.
PS: I could define the rule of the block as an independent vector but it was interesting for me how I can do this using exp.blocks characteristic.

Any comments will be highly appreciated.
Thanks

fladd

Hi Juliette,

I might miss something, but isn't your rule accessible at trials[0][2] at that point?
I also did not understand why you need it to be defined as part of the block. Is this for logging purposes? (In that case, you could just do b.rule = trials[0]2]).

Best,
Florian

Julliette

Dear Flad,

I could solve the problem with creating a list of rules and append it to the main list and zip it to the loop.

Thank you for your help
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