Hi Ting,

For my study, participants first listen to an audio sentence, at the offset of the sentence,  a visual target will appear on the screen, participants need to press a key to indicate if the visual target and the final word of the heard audio sentence is a match or mismatch.

When I looked at the data, I found that the actual RTs should equal to "trial_duration" minus the length of the audio file but not the values in the column "response_rt". Is there a way to directly log the actual RTs that I want onto the FF results spreadsheet? 

Thank you!

Yuting

Hello All. 
I am working on a new study and I need to change the size, or colour, or make bold only a one word/phrase of the response sentence. For example, in the following response: 'to beat around the bush' , I would like the word 'bush' to be bold, and the other words to have 'regular' font. As an alternative, it can have different colour or size. I know the program allows a researcher to adjust the size of the whole response, but is it possible to change the part of it to be bold? (or change its colour or?).
If yes, how should I create a particular command? 
Thank you in advance! 
Kind regards
Paweł

Hello!

I wonder how I could counterbalance the order of "test_noise" and "test_accent" for a between-subject design? Subjects should be randomly assigned to Group 1, 2, or 3, but they will complete both noise test and accent test, and I wish to counterbalance the order of these 2 test blocks. Here's my code:


"block_sequence": [
                    "General_Instruction", "Subject_ID", "Sound_check",
                    {"Group1":["c_practice", "c_exposure_1", "c_exposure_2", "c_exposure_3", "c_test_noise", "c_test_accent", "c_baseline"],
                    "Group2":["n_practice", "n_exposure_1", "n_exposure_2", "n_exposure_3", "n_test_noise", "n_test_accent", "n_baseline"],
                    "Group3":["a_practice", "a_exposure_1", "a_exposure_2", "a_exposure_3", "a_test_noise", "a_test_accent", "a_baseline"]}
                    "Survey"] 


Thanks!

Hi, I have collected data from a word-by-word self-paced study on FindingFive and am currently in the process of analyzing it. Although, FindingFive does record the RTs per each word (see yellow column in screenshot for RTs and blue column for each word in the sentence), the output does not provide a column that allows the researcher to see the position of each word in the full sentence. So far, I have been filtering my experimental conditions in Excel and labelling each word position manually (see green column). However, I was wondering if there is a more efficient way of doing this? Whether it be by using a specific argument I can add to the tokenized text option, or if someone has an automated Excel sheet or R script that can facilitate this process. Thanks in advance!

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Hello! I'm current coding an audio sentence judgment task with comprehension questions and I've been encountering difficulties for randomization. Specifically, for each test trial, participants will need to do the following things: (1) listen to a sentence, (2)  press "Yes" or "No" for the judgment task, and (3) answer a comprehension question. Currently, I'm looking for ways to randomized the order of the test audio stimuli, but I couldn't really find a way to do it because the order of the stimuli would not match the order of the corresponding comprehension question afterwards. Is there a way for us to do the randomization for this type of task? Any thoughts and feedback would be appreciated!

I think I've made a big mistake! I ran several studies and collected data -- but didn't download data from the sessions. I then deleted the studies to make room for new (running out of file space). Now I can't find any of the study sessions with my data! Is there any way of recovering the data from my now missing sessions?