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Code components still run if routine is skipped

If you skip a routine using Routine Settings, code in Begin Routine and End Routine (but not Each Frame) tabs will still be processed. You should therefore also use your “skip if” variable or expression to skip any code which you don’t want to be run.

This behaviour is the same locally and online, though I notice that a keyboard response in a skipped routine appears in the daya file as None locally and blank online.

How to skip a trial without recording an empty response

I want to skip a trial based on certain conditions while the loop is running. I tried using continueRoutine = False. But it is still recording an empty response. I do not want this because after each trial, in the end routine section it checks whether the response is different than the correct response and if incorrect or a trial was missed then the repeatCounter for that condition increases. But in this case, even when the trial needs to be skipped because no repitition is needed, the response…