(I am reposting a problem I’ve reported previously, because the original thread has been unresponsive for months, after I provided the required further details. I am hoping in this renewed attempt there will be some suggestions of how these ongoing problems can be worked around.)
In every trial of my fMRI pilot, subjects heard a sound of varying duration, and were asked to press a key to give a rating through a rating-scale component. Two critical problems exist in this experiment’s data, as recorded in its output (CSV & XLS) files:
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the rating component’s RT is shown as zero for all trials:
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The value of several components’ parameters (e.g. phrase.stopped, getLikingRating_2.response etc) is either blank or ‘None’
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As a sanity check, I computed the difference (time lapsed) between the start- and stop time of the sound component (or rather of the image component time-locked to it, cf problem #2). While for most trials this difference is (as expected) equal to the stimulus duration (as measured for each WAV file), for other trials it is not; for those trials, the computed difference is always (up to 1s) shorter than the stimulus duration. This difference does not increase with trial number (as the run progresses), instead it simply seems to be greater for the longer stimuli. Because of this problem, in my fMRI GLM analysis, I don’t know whether to enter the actual stimulus duration or the duration psychoPy indicates the sound was on for.
I attach output files that demonstrate these problems. The critical columns (in the CSV) are: AO for problem 1; CF for problem 2; and (in the XLS, the added columns) E to G, for problem 3. I can also upload the psyexp&output files privately to anyone who is happy to have a look into this. Michael had mentioned that output data should be retrieved from the CSV rather than the XLS outputs; however, the same problem exists in both formats.
01_hSs_behav_2019_Dec_06_1107.csv (72.4 KB)
outputProblems.csv (70.1 KB)
outputProblems.xlsx (69.9 KB)
Problem 3 might have to do with psychoPy’s long-standing issue with non-slip timing, which here I’ve had to use because of the variable stimulus durations. As per this older post, the intended duration is in my case known at the start of the routine, but even so there might be a slip-timing issue. But it’s strange then that the sound duration discrepance does not accumulate with time, as would be expected for such an issue; and also that RT columns are simply 0, which suggests rather a programming issue.
Part of the missing information in this data set can be recovered from the LOG files, but I’d of course be keen to find out know what went wrong here. Thanks in advance to the psychoPy team for any help that they may hopefully be able to offer here!!
PsychoPy version (e.g. 1.84.x): 3.2.4 (Builder used)
OS (e.g. Win10): Win10