Hi all! How can I have my stimulus and response start at the same time? Specifically with audio -- I want the audio to play and response options to appear on the screen simultaneously. I can't seem to find anything like this in the documentation. Thanks!!

Dear Team, 
I'm trying to put together a digit span task but I think I will need your help to implement it fully as there are some features that your platform does not have (yet). I would like to make two versions of the digit span task, a forward and backward version. The forward version is the simplest. Participants must recall digits in the order in which they were displayed. For example, if they see 7 3 6 9 then they type 7 3 6 9. Regarding the backward version, they must recall the digits in their opposite order of presentation. Using the example given, they'd have to respond with 9 6 3 7.
The forward and backward versions both commence with a trial of 2 digits in length. The forward version has a max of 9 digits and the backward task a max of 8. A trial of length n can be attempted at most twice. If a participant answers correctly on the second attempt they proceed to the next trial, whose length is now +1 relative to the previous trial. If both attempts are incorrect the task stops entirely. Similarly, the tasks also stops when a participant reaches the max number of digits, i.e. 9 for the forward and 8 for the backward.

Trial layout:
- fixation cross for 2000ms 
- individual digits each displayed for 1000ms 
- response box 
- fixation cross for 2000ms
- etc.

For the above layout, there are some features on FindingFive which offer good starting points but they don't quite hit everything on the head.  Regarding the procedure, there is the existing node "branching": {   }  which I think holds some promise because of the "min_score", "branches" and "iterations" functions but I wonder if we could employ something similar but in the Trial Templates? 
- A "min_score": TRUE --> would be required in order to progress onto the next trial. 
- "iterations": {"max": 2} -->  would ensure each trail can be attempted at most twice before "branches" comes into play.
-  "branches": {"original_trial_template": TRUE, "Exit": FALSE } --> I'm wondering if we could create a loop here within the trial_template that the "branching": {} is attached. Whereby, if TRUE then a participant is looped back to the trial template but this time it has +1 digit, else they are directed to the "Exit" Trial Template. This trial_template would also need to be specified with a max of 8 or 9 digits, depending on the version.

Another thing we'd need to look out for, each trial will generate n digits and in order to either a) progress to the next trial, b) try once again or c) stop the task, responses will need to be compared against the randomised digits previously presented. However, since the digits are randomised a function such as "target" within a response will not be fruitful. Is there a way to set up maybe a TRUE/FALSE value within a response that can compare a response given against stimuli/digits previously presented?

I hope these thoughts don't cause too much of a headache but I'm very happy to clarify and develop these ideas further. 
Cheers, 
Mary-Kate

Dear FindingFive Team, 
I've set up a central coherence task which has 16 different image stimuli, all in png format. In addition to these stimuli I also have a fixation cross, however the fixation cross I made with FindingFive coding. Unfortunately when I pilot the study only the fixation cross appears on the screen, not the images. 
It could be that this issue is stemming from the delay function I have set-up within the stimuli themselves. There are 16 stimuli but each has 5 different versions (5 different delays) as I wanted to create a 'jitter' between stimulus presentations. To create this jitter I followed options 1 and 2 outlined by Noah on a previous thread (https://discuss.findingfive.com/showthre...ight=delay) but I can't identify what I've done wrong.
Could a member of your team look into this for me?
Cheers, 
Mary-Kate

I'm running a study where I need to upload many files and consequently would like to delete some of my old and now-irrelevant files. In Resources I don't see any way to delete more than one file at a time, though. (There is an option to select multiple files, but then there are no mass-action options). Is there an easy way to delete multiple files at once or am I going to have to individually delete thousands of files?

Update: I just noticed that download/delete buttons appear on the right sidebar when you multi-select!

Hello! We originally connected the Prolific to Qaultrics which enabled us to see the ID that Prolific automatically generated. But when participants went from Qualtrics to Prolicific, that's where the login issue popped up. So, if I understandcorrectly,  if we connect FF to Prolific first, that solves the login issue. But how do we get the ID on FF? Because we still need them to fill out the Qualtrics survey, and the PID is what we would use to match them up. So my main issue is tracking the participants across 3 different platforms.

What also confuses me is that Prolific seems to believe there is no integration. They said that Finding Five is not listed among current survey integrations. All help and screenshots would be appreciated! In a perfect world, the study would go:  
recruited on Prolific, which leads them to Qualtrics, where they get assigned a PID. Then they are directed to FF to put in an access code, and do not have to give out any personal info/login. They input their PID, which they got from Qaultrics into the Finding Five portion at the start. 

If that is not possible, I would love to know. Thank you again for your quick response and help!

Hello! We have set up an experiment on Finding Five, which participants are redirected to after a Qualtrics survey. We are using Prolific for participants and in a thread from 2021 I saw that there was no way to get the PIDS from Prolific directly into FF. I was wondering if that has changed? A bigger issue is that Prolific policy clearly states that we must give participants all needed login info/ access codes and that they are absolutely not allowed to enter any personal information. Whenever FF is opened, it makes participants sign up / login, and we are having a hard time trying to make that part of FF work with the Prolific policy. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Hi, I'm wondering if there is any way to change the font size of the feedback feature. Adding the font_size code to a choice response with feedback enabled seems to only change the size of the response choices, not the feedback given.

I'm trying to create a study where there is a delay between stimuli, but the delay is randomized between 3 possible lengths. Is there a way to code this? So far I've only found a way to code a fixed delay between stimuli with "delay": 0.5

Hi everyone, 
Is it possible to call a program as a subroutine in the middle of another program? Or does one have to copy and paste the first program and export all stimulus/response definitions from that program into the new one?  In other words, can we call a different (likely much smaller) program as a “function” or “subroutine”, or maybe as a "block definition" that could be used in the block sequence? It seems like this would simplify things especially if that smaller program is used often in multiple other programs.  Thank you very much!

Hello,
We have a program with 8 groups. When the data is saved, a column is dedicated to showing group number on each row of every trial of a given run (this is great!).  However, we would like to know if there is a way to add arbitrary stimulus-dependent or response-dependent info individually for each trial for a given group as we set up the stimuli or responses in the program.  

The reason for this is that a stimulus (an audio presentation) may be used differently across groups. So for group 1, it may be used as a “filler word A or filler word B and, list A or B, etc.”.  The question is whether we can have a column that allows trial by trial entry of arbitrary information, and if yes, what is the best way to do this. 

Because the same stimulus will be tagged differently for each group, I would think that this would either need to be set up in the “Responses” section during programming, or that we would have to create multiple versions of the stimulus (using the same audio file) but named differently in the stimulus section (which may not be ideal).  Is there a “field” that can be defined either in stimuli or responses or through another method that can add this arbitrary trial-by-trial info to the saved data files?     

Of course we can always refer back to group number to infer these tags, but as a sanity check on the data, we were wondering if this information could be directly included in the data files through either stimulus or response definitions, or another method.
Thank you very much for any guidance you may have on this!!