Pause experiment within one trial

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• sebastiaan

  September 2020

  Hi @IgottaPauer ,

  When you resume after a pause, the experiment will simply pick up where it left off, i.e. after exp.pause() . However, the display is not restored back to its original state, and this may give the impression that the experiment continues to the next trial, rather than picking up where it left off. Could that be it? In that case, showing a Canvas or sketchpad that indicates that the trial has resumed is a good way to fix this. For example, say that the last visible sketchpad was called last_sketchpad, then you could modify your script as follows:

  if var.correct_cursor_pause == var.cursor_roi:
      exp.pause()
      items['last_sketchpad'].run()
  

  However, whether that will work in your case or not of course depends on the details of your experiment!

  Cheers,

  Sebastiaan

  
  
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• IgottaPauer

  September 2020

  Hi sebastiaan,

  thanks for the response. The sequence did in fact continue with the next trial, since there was a mouse_response collected by clicking on the pause button (I guess).

  However I was able to fix it slightly different than you suggested:

  if self.get('cursor_roi') == 'Pause' :
      exp.items['sequence_2'].prepare()
      exp.items['sequence_2'].run()
  

  
  

  This way the current sequence just starts over after pausing the experiment.

  Thanks for the help!

  Charlotte
• sebastiaan

  September 2020

  That's a clever solution! You could even simplify it a bit to:

  if var.cursor_roi == 'Pause' :
      items['sequence_2'].prepare()
      items['sequence_2'].run()
  

  
  

  
  
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• IgottaPauer

  September 2020

  Thanks and thanks :D