User`s guide

E-Prime User’s Guide
Chapter 2: Using E-Studio
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the Fixation and the Probe display objects, click the TextDisplay object icon in the Toolbox and
drag two TextDisplays to the TrialProc. The figure below shows both the Structure view and the
TrialProc after putting the TextDisplays on the TrialProc and renaming them appropriately.
2.3.5 Perform Step 1.5: Set the non-default and
varying properties of the trial events
The properties of each trial object/event must be set, if the desired settings differ from the default
settings. If a property does not vary throughout the experiment, it would be set to a constant
(e.g., the text “+” for fixation). When a property varies (e.g., the stimulus of “cat” or “jop”), it would
be set to refer to an attribute value (such as [Stimulus]) defined on a List object.
2.3.5.1 Specify the stimuli the subject will see
In the lexical decision experiment, the subject is to see a “+” for the Fixation and a value of the
Stimulus attribute for the Probe display. These values can be set by typing directly in the display
areas of the display objects as the following illustrates:
If objects other than a TextDisplay were used for the stimulus display, different types of
information might determine the basic stimulus. For example, ImageDisplays are used to display
bitmaps, SoundOut objects are used to present audio file output in WAV file format, and Slide
objects were specifically designed to present a combination of text, bitmaps, and sounds.
2.3.5.2 Specify non-default properties of each trial event
Each object has many properties. These can be set using either the Properties window or the
Property pages. The Properties window lists the properties related to a specific object in
alphabetical order. The Property pages arrange the properties in meaningful groupings under a
common tab (e.g., the tabs for the TextDisplay object include General, Frame, Font,
Duration/Input, Logging, and Notes). In general, it is recommended that the user use the
Property pages to set the properties.
For the lexical decision experiment, the Probe display requires some non-default properties. The
arrows in the figure below show the settings for these properties. First, double click the Probe