Hi @dvbridges. Thanks for your quick response. So before I saw your response, we realized we were using a stereo track and figured Psychopy 1.90.1 could only read mono tracks.
We thus changed all of our tracks from stereo to mono and the experiment plays with the appropriate sounds and theoretically works but it still requires a specification of the stop duration time. Is this part only updated in Psychopy3? If this helps, here is our code (sorry we are new to Psychopy so I apologize in advance for the unattractive code):
#!/usr/bin/env python
-- coding: utf-8 --
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This experiment was created using PsychoPy2 Experiment Builder (v1.90.1),
on Mon Oct 1 08:07:13 2018
If you publish work using this script please cite the PsychoPy publications:
Peirce, JW (2007) PsychoPy - Psychophysics software in Python.
Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 162(1-2), 8-13.
Peirce, JW (2009) Generating stimuli for neuroscience using PsychoPy.
Frontiers in Neuroinformatics, 2:10. doi: 10.3389/neuro.11.010.2008
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from future import absolute_import, division
from psychopy import locale_setup, sound, gui, visual, core, data, event, logging, clock
from psychopy.constants import (NOT_STARTED, STARTED, PLAYING, PAUSED,
STOPPED, FINISHED, PRESSED, RELEASED, FOREVER)
import numpy as np # whole numpy lib is available, prepend ‘np.’
from numpy import (sin, cos, tan, log, log10, pi, average,
sqrt, std, deg2rad, rad2deg, linspace, asarray)
from numpy.random import random, randint, normal, shuffle
import os # handy system and path functions
import sys # to get file system encoding
Ensure that relative paths start from the same directory as this script
_thisDir = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(file))
os.chdir(_thisDir)
Store info about the experiment session
expName = ‘TestTestTest2’ # from the Builder filename that created this script
expInfo = {‘participant’: ‘’, ‘session’: ‘001’}
dlg = gui.DlgFromDict(dictionary=expInfo, title=expName)
if dlg.OK == False:
core.quit() # user pressed cancel
expInfo[‘date’] = data.getDateStr() # add a simple timestamp
expInfo[‘expName’] = expName
Data file name stem = absolute path + name; later add .psyexp, .csv, .log, etc
filename = thisDir + os.sep + u’data/%s%s_%s’ % (expInfo[‘participant’], expName, expInfo[‘date’])
An ExperimentHandler isn’t essential but helps with data saving
thisExp = data.ExperimentHandler(name=expName, version=’’,
extraInfo=expInfo, runtimeInfo=None,
originPath=None,
savePickle=True, saveWideText=True,
dataFileName=filename)
save a log file for detail verbose info
logFile = logging.LogFile(filename+’.log’, level=logging.EXP)
logging.console.setLevel(logging.WARNING) # this outputs to the screen, not a file
endExpNow = False # flag for ‘escape’ or other condition => quit the exp
Start Code - component code to be run before the window creation
Setup the Window
win = visual.Window(
size=(1024, 768), fullscr=True, screen=0,
allowGUI=False, allowStencil=False,
monitor=‘testMonitor’, color=[0,0,0], colorSpace=‘rgb’,
blendMode=‘avg’, useFBO=True)
store frame rate of monitor if we can measure it
expInfo[‘frameRate’] = win.getActualFrameRate()
if expInfo[‘frameRate’] != None:
frameDur = 1.0 / round(expInfo[‘frameRate’])
else:
frameDur = 1.0 / 60.0 # could not measure, so guess
Initialize components for Routine “trial”
trialClock = core.Clock()
MaleQ = sound.Sound(‘A’, secs=-1)
MaleQ.setVolume(1)
image = visual.ImageStim(
win=win, name=‘image’,
image=‘sin’, mask=None,
ori=1.0, pos=(0, 0), size=None,
color=[1,1,1], colorSpace=‘rgb’, opacity=1,
flipHoriz=False, flipVert=False,
texRes=128, interpolate=True, depth=-2.0)
FemAnswer = sound.Sound(‘A’, secs=-1)
FemAnswer.setVolume(1)
Create some handy timers
globalClock = core.Clock() # to track the time since experiment started
routineTimer = core.CountdownTimer() # to track time remaining of each (non-slip) routine
set up handler to look after randomisation of conditions etc
Block1 = data.TrialHandler(nReps=1, method=‘sequential’,
extraInfo=expInfo, originPath=-1,
trialList=data.importConditions(‘conditionTestRunTrainingBlock1_TEST.xlsx’),
seed=None, name=‘Block1’)
thisExp.addLoop(Block1) # add the loop to the experiment
thisBlock1 = Block1.trialList[0] # so we can initialise stimuli with some values
abbreviate parameter names if possible (e.g. rgb = thisBlock1.rgb)
if thisBlock1 != None:
for paramName in thisBlock1:
exec(’{} = thisBlock1[paramName]’.format(paramName))
for thisBlock1 in Block1:
currentLoop = Block1
# abbreviate parameter names if possible (e.g. rgb = thisBlock1.rgb)
if thisBlock1 != None:
for paramName in thisBlock1:
exec(’{} = thisBlock1[paramName]’.format(paramName))
# ------Prepare to start Routine "trial"-------
t = 0
trialClock.reset() # clock
frameN = -1
continueRoutine = True
# update component parameters for each repeat
Forward001 = event.BuilderKeyResponse()
MaleQ.setSound(soundFileQCase, secs=4)
image.setOri(0)
image.setImage(imageFileCase)
FemAnswer.setSound(soundFileACase, secs=6)
# keep track of which components have finished
trialComponents = [Forward001, MaleQ, image, FemAnswer]
for thisComponent in trialComponents:
if hasattr(thisComponent, 'status'):
thisComponent.status = NOT_STARTED
# -------Start Routine "trial"-------
while continueRoutine:
# get current time
t = trialClock.getTime()
frameN = frameN + 1 # number of completed frames (so 0 is the first frame)
# update/draw components on each frame
# *Forward001* updates
if t >= 0 and Forward001.status == NOT_STARTED:
# keep track of start time/frame for later
Forward001.tStart = t
Forward001.frameNStart = frameN # exact frame index
Forward001.status = STARTED
# keyboard checking is just starting
win.callOnFlip(Forward001.clock.reset) # t=0 on next screen flip
event.clearEvents(eventType='keyboard')
if Forward001.status == STARTED:
theseKeys = event.getKeys()
# check for quit:
if "escape" in theseKeys:
endExpNow = True
if len(theseKeys) > 0: # at least one key was pressed
Forward001.keys = theseKeys[-1] # just the last key pressed
Forward001.rt = Forward001.clock.getTime()
# a response ends the routine
continueRoutine = False
# start/stop MaleQ
if t >= 0 and MaleQ.status == NOT_STARTED:
# keep track of start time/frame for later
MaleQ.tStart = t
MaleQ.frameNStart = frameN # exact frame index
MaleQ.play() # start the sound (it finishes automatically)
frameRemains = 0 + 4- win.monitorFramePeriod * 0.75 # most of one frame period left
if MaleQ.status == STARTED and t >= frameRemains:
MaleQ.stop() # stop the sound (if longer than duration)
# *image* updates
if t >= 0 and image.status == NOT_STARTED:
# keep track of start time/frame for later
image.tStart = t
image.frameNStart = frameN # exact frame index
image.setAutoDraw(True)
# start/stop FemAnswer
if t >= 4 and FemAnswer.status == NOT_STARTED:
# keep track of start time/frame for later
FemAnswer.tStart = t
FemAnswer.frameNStart = frameN # exact frame index
FemAnswer.play() # start the sound (it finishes automatically)
frameRemains = 4 + 6- win.monitorFramePeriod * 0.75 # most of one frame period left
if FemAnswer.status == STARTED and t >= frameRemains:
FemAnswer.stop() # stop the sound (if longer than duration)
# check if all components have finished
if not continueRoutine: # a component has requested a forced-end of Routine
break
continueRoutine = False # will revert to True if at least one component still running
for thisComponent in trialComponents:
if hasattr(thisComponent, "status") and thisComponent.status != FINISHED:
continueRoutine = True
break # at least one component has not yet finished
# check for quit (the Esc key)
if endExpNow or event.getKeys(keyList=["escape"]):
core.quit()
# refresh the screen
if continueRoutine: # don't flip if this routine is over or we'll get a blank screen
win.flip()
# -------Ending Routine "trial"-------
for thisComponent in trialComponents:
if hasattr(thisComponent, "setAutoDraw"):
thisComponent.setAutoDraw(False)
# check responses
if Forward001.keys in ['', [], None]: # No response was made
Forward001.keys=None
Block1.addData('Forward001.keys',Forward001.keys)
if Forward001.keys != None: # we had a response
Block1.addData('Forward001.rt', Forward001.rt)
MaleQ.stop() # ensure sound has stopped at end of routine
FemAnswer.stop() # ensure sound has stopped at end of routine
# the Routine "trial" was not non-slip safe, so reset the non-slip timer
routineTimer.reset()
thisExp.nextEntry()
completed 1 repeats of ‘Block1’
these shouldn’t be strictly necessary (should auto-save)
thisExp.saveAsWideText(filename+’.csv’)
thisExp.saveAsPickle(filename)
logging.flush()
make sure everything is closed down
thisExp.abort() # or data files will save again on exit
win.close()
core.quit()