How to use

This is the main source code for the experiment. If you want to use it, you should copy the actual zip file to your own PsyToolkit account, because often there are other files included for stimuli.

The source code for ior

# every line starting with # is comment

options
  bitmapdir stimuli    # the folder that contains the stimuli bitmaps
  escape

# the following section defines the bitmaps.  the default format for
# bitmaps is "png" if you use png files, you do not need to use the
# extension.

bitmaps
  cuesignal # this refers to the file cuesignal.png
  gosignal
  fixpoint1 # small
  fixpoint2 # medium
  fixpoint3 # large
  box
  instruction
  afterwords
  mistakefeedback

fonts
  arial 20

# the table section contains 4 rows, one for each of the four
# conditions the stuff in quatation marks is human readable
# information, the program doesn't really need it.

table iortable
  "cueleft  targetleft  cued   0" -200 -200  1
  "cueleft  targetright uncued 1" -200  200  2
  "cueright targetleft  uncued 1"  200 -200  1
  "cueright targetright cued   0"  200  200  2

# the task describes exactly one trial. On each each trial, one of the
# rows of the cue table is chosen at random

task iortask
  table iortable
  keys a l
  delay 500 # time between trials
  show bitmap fixpoint1
  show bitmap box -200 0
  show bitmap box  200 0
  delay 75
  show bitmap fixpoint2
  delay 75
  show bitmap fixpoint3
  delay 75
  clear 4 5
  show bitmap fixpoint2
  delay 75
  clear 6
  show bitmap fixpoint1
  delay 200
  show bitmap cuesignal @2 0 # now show the cue
  delay 200
  clear -1
  delay 800
  show bitmap gosignal @3 0 # show target (go) 700 ms later
  readkey @4 1500
  clear -1
  if STATUS != CORRECT
    show bitmap mistakefeedback 0 200
    delay 2000
    clear -1
  fi
  save @1 RT STATUS # this saves the data to an output file

block iorblock
  bitmap instruction
  wait_for_key
  tasklist
    iortask 100 # do the task 100 times
  end
  bitmap afterwords
  wait_for_key
  feedback
    set &RTcued   mean c5 ; prefix "Cued conditions:" ; select c6 == 1 && c4 == 0
    set &RTuncued mean c5 ; prefix "Uncued conditions:" ; select c6 == 1 && c4 == 1
    set &IOReffect expression &RTcued - &RTuncued
    text 0 0 "Response time (ms)"
    text 0 50 &RTcued     ; prefix "Cued conditions: " ; postfix " ms"
    text 0 100 &RTuncued  ; prefix "Uncued conditions:" ; postfix " ms"
    text 0 150 &IOReffect ; prefix "IOR effect (cued - uncued):"  ; postfix " ms"
    text 0 250 "Press space bar to continue"
  end