Besides being able to use some limited HTML tags in trial stimuli, are there any plans to introduce anything like CSS to alter trial appearance? For example, could there be any way to change response buttons from orange to a different color? Or change the background color from white to grey?

Dear Researchers,

We are excited to announce the availability of a new stimulus type, tokenized images! The documentation on this new stimulus can be found here: https://help.findingfive.com/api/stimuli...ized_image

What it does
As the name suggests, a tokenized image stimulus can be used to display a list of images in sequence. If you have used our tokenized text or tokenized audio stimuli, the tokenized image stimulus is our effort to bring similar functionality to images.

Recommended usage
The tokenized image stimulus is best at simulating GIF-like animation, and yet with precise timing control for how long each frame / image token should be displayed. This has many uses in psychological studies. For example, in visual priming studies, it is common to present the priming image for only a split of a second, and then collect a response on the actual target image. This new stimulus will make the creation of such stimuli easy and flexible.

Pain points addressed
Before the introduction of this new stimulus, in order to present several images in sequence, researchers needed to use a trial-yoking technique that has the side effect of a "flashing screen". Using that technique also limits the options in randomizing trials at the block level. The new tokenized image stimulus can now be used instead.

Future work
The tokenized image stimulus does not support a self-paced option, unlike the tokenized text and tokenized audio stimuli. We are planning to add this support eventually. If you have a particular use for a self-paced tokenized image stimulus, please leave a reply below to let us know!

Hello,
In my study participants see a sequence of letters and need to respond 'yes' or 'no' as to whether that sequence was correct or not.
Currently, it seems that they can respond without waiting to see the entire sequence. Is there a way to limit response options until the end of the sequence?

If possible, I feel it would be helpful to have the ability to increase the number of participants in a session, especially since we cannot have more than one session for the same study. If we can extend the session, why not add more participants to it? Thanks!

We are aware of a problem that results in incorrect branching in encrypted studies (where participant data are encrypted). This issue only affects the branching method "match". The branching method "accuracy" is not affected.

Affected users
We are not aware of any production study being affected by this bug.

Remedies
A fix has been identified and is currently being tested. We expect to release this fix in the week of 03/14/2021.

Dear Researchers,

We have discovered a bug that may have resulted in partial loss of audio recording data. This bug has been fixed. The purpose of this post is to raise awareness in case you are affected by this bug and haven't noticed it yet.

If you collected audio recording data using the "background audio response" between February 04, 2021 and March 12, 2021, the audio recordings were not saved if and only if your study meets all the following criteria:

• The background audio response was used for collecting audio recordings
  
• The background audio response was set to show the volume visualizer
  
• Your study used the "duration" parameter in trial templates that involve the background audio response
  
• Your study did not use the "duration" parameter in the background audio response
  

Hi, Findingfive!
I am writing because I would like to ask you whether there is anything like conditional response for stimuli.
I am designing an experiment, in which participants are asked to listen to audio stimuli and record real words if they heard any in the stimuli. So, basically I need two responses for each stimulus as follows.
i) Choice response ("yes" or "no"): Whether you heard any real word
ii) Audio response (conditional - if "yes"): If you heard any, please say what you heard. 
I would like to make the audio response only available to those who put "yes" in the choice response. I read through the tutorials and grammar reference documents but was not able to find anything like that.
I do apologize for any inconvenience.
Thank you very much.

Sincerely,
Cheonkam Jeong

Hello, I am receiving the error below:

"Your study contains coding errors that we cannot automatically detect yet. Please refer to the Study Grammar Reference Your study contains coding errors that we cannot automatically detect yet. Please refer to the Study Grammar Reference for help."

The task was working perfectly fine. I added stimuli and then received this error. I have referred to the Study Grammar but cannot find the problem.

Hi, 
I conducted a translation judgement task which required participants to judge whether the translations for Mandarin words were correct. In the cvs file of the results, I found several stimuli showed 2 in the network_error_repeat column. I wonder what I should do with this group of data.
Thanks!
Zhe

Dear colleagues,

an error occurred when one of the participants in my colleague's experiment was taking part in the study. We were able to make a screenshot of this error, please see it attached. This error occurred twice (with two participants). 

Do you know why this error may have occurred? Maybe we can do something to avoid such errors in the future?

Thank you in advance!

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