Provide feedback for a wrong response during a choice RT,

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1

Hi all,
We’re trying to make a between hand choice RT using builder.
We assigned ‘c’ key for the left-hand response, while ‘m’ key for the right-hand response.
For all the responses, we provide feedback.
For example, the imperative requires left-hand response,

  1. the correct response (press ‘c’ in the absence of ‘m’ key response), we display RT.
  2. If there is a ‘m’ key response, display ‘wrong choice’
  3. No response, display ‘missed’

We set ‘all keys’ option for the response property.
In the function (begin routine), we tried the following:


if ('c' in RightStopResp.keys and 'c' in corrAns) and (RightStopResp.keys!='m'):
  msg="RT=%.3f" %(RightStopResp.rt[0])

elif RightStopResp.keys=='m':
  msg="wrong response"

else:
  msg="missed"

But this doesn’t work.
It seems that registering no response using ‘m’ is the problem.

Could anyone help?

Thank you

2

RightStopResp.keys is a list and you’re trying to compare it to a string (two different data types) - so I suspect you need to do what you did in the first clause

elif 'm' in RightStopResp.keys:
  msg="wrong response"

else:
  msg="missed"

Best wishes,

Oli

3

Thanks, Oli for your thoughts.
I tired it, but unfortunately, it didn’t work.
Any other suggestions I can try?
Thank you!

4

In what situation would a participant press “m” - is the purpose of the study to train people not to press it?

If you move the whole lot into a code component in your test routine (end of routine tab) rather than the begin routine tab of your feedback routine it should work fine.

5

Hi Oli,
“In what situation would a participant press “m” - is the purpose of the study to train people not to press it?”
I didn’t explain full details, but this is a part of bimanual reaction time task which requires bimanual response, left hand only response or right hand only response.
Accordingly, it is likely that when “c” response is required (left hand only response) sometimes participants press ‘c’ as well as ‘m’ (fail to stop right hand response). We would like to mark this response as fail.

I moved the entire code into End Routine tab (please see attached).
But still the same…

Any advice would be appreciated!

6

Hi Oli,
Just letting you know that we managed to solve the issue based on your advice.
The final code looks like this:

if ('c' in RightStopResp.keys and 'c' in corrAns) and ('m' not in RightStopResp.keys):  #correct response, if only "c" was pressed return RT 
  msg="RT=%.3f" %(RightStopResp.rt[0])


elif 'm' in RightStopResp.keys: # if participant pressed 'm' ('c' could be pressed before or after 'm' press, register as a wrong response
  msg="wrong response"

else:
  msg="missed" # everything else

Thank you so much for your advice.