Task duration - how to make sure the loop is approximately 10 minutes

[Michael]

Hi,

I guess you don’t really mean the duration of a routine (since that is just determined by the duration of the components within it), but the duration of multiple presentations of a routine within a loop (i.e. where each presentation of a routine is much less than ten minutes, but you want to limit the total number of presentations)?

If so, see this:

Continue t from one routine to the next?

General question: Is it possible to let the trial clock t continue from one routine to the next? Or at least pass its value on so that it can seamlessly continue? I have a stim that moves as a function of time and I want the movement to continue smoothly from one routine to the next

and then you could have code that looks something like this:

if your_clock_name.getTime() >= 600:
    continueRoutine = False
    your_loop_name.finished = True

If that code is in the “each frame” tab of a code component, then it would end the routine and the loop at exactly ten minutes. If it is in the “begin routine” or “end routine” tabs, then it wouldn’t be as accurate (because the last routine might run past ten minutes), but the routine wouldn’t end part way through.