[open] Prevent a picture to be shown twice

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• lvanderlinden

  July 2013 edited 6:54AM

  Hi Daniël,

  Is it possible for you to provide us with the code of your experiment?

  • Open the "General properties" tab, click "Script editor" and copy the whole script,
  • go to pastebin.com or gist.github.com, upload your script there (simply paste and submit)
  • and provide us with the resulting link in your forum post.

  I think I understand the question, but just to be sure I think it would help if I could see the experiment myself.

  Best,

  Lotje

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• skinnerwinner

  July 2013 edited 6:54AM

  Hi Lotje,

  here's the link to my experiment. Thanks for your help :-)

  Daniel
• lvanderlinden

  July 2013 edited 6:54AM

  Hi Daniël,

  Thanks for the link.

  If I understand correctly, you don't want stimuli from within a given loop (e.g. 'fearful_loop') to be repeated, right?
  One way to achieve this is as follows:

  Firstly, append an inline_script item to the beginning of all your 'sub' sequences:

  

  Secondly, put the following code in the inline_script item (see comments for more information):

  # Get the loop item from the items dictionary:
  loop_item = exp.items['%s_loop' % self.get("Emotion2")]
  
  # And remove the current cycle, such that the stimulus presented
  # on the current trial will never be shown again.
  
  # In other words, if your fearful_loop is run again, it will not contain
  # the previously-shown 'Emotion's' anymore, and therefore they cannot
  # be shown multiple times by coincidence.
  
  for cycle in loop_item.matrix:
      if loop_item.matrix[cycle]['Neutral'] == self.get('Neutral'):
          break
  
  del loop_item.matrix[cycle]
  

  Note that this quick way to achieve your goal involves changing the internals of OpenSesame, since we're manually adapting the content of the in-the-GUI-defined loop items.
  For another thread on this issue, see:

  • http://forum.cogsci.nl/index.php?p=/discussion/426/solved-read-out-randomized-trial-list/p1

  There are other, more transparent ways to prevent stimuli from being presented twice as well, but those involve more inline_script items and would require a bigger change in the outline of your experiment. That's why I'd suggest the above, somewhat complex method first (but I'm happy to explain the other one as well, if you want).

  An example experiment can be found here:

  • http://pastebin.com/ZvseuPuu

  Best wishes,

  Lotje

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