PsychoPy version (e.g. 2024.2.4 Py 3.8): 2024.1.4 Standard Standalone Installation? (y/n): y Do you want it to also run online? (y/n): n What are you trying to achieve?: I am doing a PWI (picture-word interference) task where a picture and word are displayed simultaneously for a short brief followed by a blank screen, while the participant names the picture, followed by a fixation cross before the next trial. The length that each screen is presented for is set by a predetermined range. It works as expected and as wanted however once during testing the blank screen stayed much longer than it was supposed to for many trials (10 seconds instead of 2). This continued so we had to stop testing. It didn’t happen before and hasn’t happened since. Does anyone know why this might have happened
The 2024.1.4 version of psychopy that is being used does not have the voicekey component so that isn’t an option.
I implemented your suggestion but unfortunately it happened again. It does not happen with every participant. I am using a code component to randomly determine the trial length between 1.6 and 1.8 seconds (to vary the trial length). The fact that it doesn’t happen with every participant is confusing me. Do you have any other ideas?
When are you calculating the trial length? If you use Routine Settings, you need to have the value calculated before the routine starts. Alternatively, you could try ending the routine in Each Frame code.