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Post by Kerstin on Jun 14, 2020 14:21:45 GMT
Hi,
I have run a study using the following coding. I have 8 blocks in total which vary the tables of the stimuli (one task uses one table of stimuli). Each table has at least 20 stimulus objects (words or images).
block 2PPos
message PP2I enter
tasklist
2orless 16 all_before_repeat
WPos 16 all_before_repeat
NoGoP2 12 all_before_repeat
NoGoPosW 12 all_before_repeat
end
block 2SNeg
message NS2I enter
tasklist
Shape2 16 all_before_repeat
neg 16 all_before_repeat
NoGoSh2 12 all_before_repeat
NoGoNegW 12 all_before_repeat
end
In my test run I didn't get any repeats of stimuli within a block but in the live run there are 1880 are duplicates (in 47488 trials (106 participants completing 448 trials each, 56 per block). I've done a little more analysis and the only tasks which don't contain any duplication are those in pink - NoGoPosW and neg. The thing they have in common is that they both use a table called 'neg'. This is the only table which is named in all lowercase. The rest of the code seems to have been ok with mixed case, e.g. only running 16 'go' tasks and 12 nogo.
Is there any chance that this could be a quirk in acceptable code that I haven't spotted in the documentation?
Many thanks
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Post by alexandra (AEC) on Jun 15, 2020 16:51:15 GMT
Hi there,
I double-checked my current data and I have no duplicates after using all_before_repeat in my blocks. The tables in that experiment are all named using a mixture of upper and lower case letters. Consequently, this should not be the problem in your case either. Is there anything else that is different to the other tasks or the blocks of tasks? I assume all tables have the same length or at least the length of the number of trials intended as shown in your code example?
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Post by Kerstin on Jun 16, 2020 4:30:50 GMT
Hi Alexandra, That is the only difference apart from the actual content of the tables. All tables have more rows of stimuli (minimum 20) than the number of trials (16 or 12) within a task in which the table is called. The tables are either images or words but the replication happens on trials that use the positive word table but not the negative one, and it happens across all participants too. Very strange but I guess I'll just have to leave it out as an extra level of control I tried to implement. Thanks for checking yours. K
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