10-29-2025, 05:46 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-29-2025, 05:47 PM by noah.nelson.)
Hello HF2021!
You have a couple options for how to achieve your desired result:
1. Build a different response for every trial and put the target and foil WORDS in as the choices, instead of "S" and "T"
The basic logic here is that you make a new response for each word pair, and explicitly put the words in as the choices. If you didn't already know, you can set up a trial template with N trials, each using one of N responses. For example, a template with N audio stimuli and N responses will, by default, pair each response to a stimulus in order (stim1+resp1, stim2+resp2, ...stimN+respN). In this way, you can ensure that "myth.wav" is correctly matched up with the "MYTH / MISS" 2AFC choice response. This pairing of stimuli and responses into trials happens before the stimulus_pattern is applied, so you can still randomize this and be sure that your stimuli and responses will match on each trial. See this resource for more information on default and custom response pairing options in trial templates.
2. Build additional text stimuli for each word and display them along with the response
The basic logic here is to have each trial consist of 1 audio stimulus, 2 text stimuli (your target and foil words), and 1 choice response (your S/T 2AFC). By default the two words should appear side-by-side, and if they don't you can use the custom layout option to specify their locations. However, the spacing between the two words might be a bit tighter than you'd like. You can adjust the size of the text stimuli to help with this, but depending on your desired trial layout you may need to use a hack to space the words out.
Basically, if you have a compelling reason to want your response choices to always be "S" and "T", then option 2 is likely your best bet. In this case, let me know and I can help you with the "hacky" solution for spacing out the words. But I would strongly suggest option 1 if it fits your design needs. This is certainly what I would do!
Best of luck, and please follow up here as needed or to let us know how it goes!
You have a couple options for how to achieve your desired result:
1. Build a different response for every trial and put the target and foil WORDS in as the choices, instead of "S" and "T"
The basic logic here is that you make a new response for each word pair, and explicitly put the words in as the choices. If you didn't already know, you can set up a trial template with N trials, each using one of N responses. For example, a template with N audio stimuli and N responses will, by default, pair each response to a stimulus in order (stim1+resp1, stim2+resp2, ...stimN+respN). In this way, you can ensure that "myth.wav" is correctly matched up with the "MYTH / MISS" 2AFC choice response. This pairing of stimuli and responses into trials happens before the stimulus_pattern is applied, so you can still randomize this and be sure that your stimuli and responses will match on each trial. See this resource for more information on default and custom response pairing options in trial templates.
2. Build additional text stimuli for each word and display them along with the response
The basic logic here is to have each trial consist of 1 audio stimulus, 2 text stimuli (your target and foil words), and 1 choice response (your S/T 2AFC). By default the two words should appear side-by-side, and if they don't you can use the custom layout option to specify their locations. However, the spacing between the two words might be a bit tighter than you'd like. You can adjust the size of the text stimuli to help with this, but depending on your desired trial layout you may need to use a hack to space the words out.
Basically, if you have a compelling reason to want your response choices to always be "S" and "T", then option 2 is likely your best bet. In this case, let me know and I can help you with the "hacky" solution for spacing out the words. But I would strongly suggest option 1 if it fits your design needs. This is certainly what I would do!
Best of luck, and please follow up here as needed or to let us know how it goes!
Noah Nelson
VP of Product @ FindingFive
VP of Product @ FindingFive