Getting started with NeuroTask Scripting, 2nd Edition
Getting started with NeuroTask Scripting, 2nd Edition
Create an online experiment in hours not days
About the Book
This book teaches you all you need to know to create online experiments using NeuroTask Scripting. Check it out at https://scripting.neurotask.com.
About the Author
Table of Contents
-
Preface
- Audience
- Typographic Convention
- Acknowledgements
-
1 Getting Started with NeuroTask Scripting
- 1.1 What Are Scripts and Why Do We Need Them?
-
1.2 Scripting Psychological Experiments
- Writing Scripts
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1.3 Scripts
- The Structure of an Experiment Script
- Your first script: A small experiment
- Walking through Script 1.1
- Script 1.2: A free recall experiment
-
Script 1.3: A shorter script with a
forloop- White Space
- Variables
- Assigning Values to Variables
- Arrays
-
forloops-
Parts of a
forloop: Head and Body - Increment
- Declaring Multiple Values at Once
-
Parts of a
-
Script 1.4: Even shorter scripts with
getwords()
- 1.4 You have started with online experiments!
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2 Capturing Keys and Reaction Times
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2.1 Achieving Precise Timing with
await() -
2.2 Handling Various Types of Events with
Await()- Click events
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2.3
Await-ing Keyboard Events- A Simplified Script for a Lexical Decision Task
-
Key presses
- I) Printable Keys
- II) Any Key
- III) Non-printable Keys
- Event Properties
-
2.4 Measuring Reaction Time (with
now(),await(), andawaitkey())- Reaction Time in Theory (Long-hand)
- Reaction Time in Practice (Short-hand)
- Reaction Times with Timeouts
-
2.5
if...thenstatements-
Operators
- Order of Interpretation of Operators
-
Operators
-
2.6 More Examples with Keyboard Events
- Shift-Alt-Ctrl
- 2.7 A More Complete Script for a Lexical Decision Task
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2.1 Achieving Precise Timing with
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3 Screen layout with “
Box” and “Block”- 3.1 Maintaining Experimental Control in an Online Setting: Layout
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3.2 Two Standard Layout Choices in NeuroTask: Fill and Square
- The fill layout
- The square layout
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3.3 Cross-Browser Layout Issues
- Font size
- Zooming and Text-Sizing
- Font Type
- Centering Text and Images
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3.4 The Backbone of Layout in NeuroTask:
BoxandBlock -
3.5 Box
-
The Pre-set Box Called “main”
-
“
main” is the Default for Many Box Functions
-
“
-
Customizing Boxes
- Box Color
- Box Borders, Backgrounds, and Fonts
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The Pre-set Box Called “main”
-
3.6 Block
- Adding Blocks
-
Removing and Destroying Blocks
- Removing vs. Destroying
- Example Block Layouts
- Showing Text in Blocks
- Showing Images in Blocks
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3.7 Combining Box and Block: the
makebox()convenience function - 3.8 Deleting All Contents of a Box
-
3.9 Using Blocks as Stimuli
- Corsi Block Tapping Task
- Random Dot Stimuli
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4 Images
-
4.1 Visual recognition task
-
-
concat(array1,array2) -
contains(array,element) -
log(variable,label)
-
-
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4.2 Image linking and uploading
- Uploading images
- Linking images
- Uploading versus linking images
- 4.3 Where your images are stored
-
4.4 Preloading images
-
The
preload()function - Preloading is Block-specific
-
The
- 4.5 Resizing images
-
4.1 Visual recognition task
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5 Style
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5.1 Style with
style()- Chaining of block function calls
- 5.2 Setting font size of an entire Box
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5.3 Queries with tag name,
classandid -
5.4 Color
- Named colors
- RGB and Hex
- Opacity and transparency
-
5.5 Fonts and text styles
- Font family
-
Font size and other text style properties
- Font weight: bold and bolder
- Font style: italic
- Text decoration: underline and line-through
- Font size and line-height
- Text align: left, right, or justify
- Top, left, width, height, and getshape()
- 5.6 Borders
- 5.7 Padding
- 5.8 Preset functions versus block functions
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5.1 Style with
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6 Survey questions with form controls
- 6.1 Instruction
- 6.2 Button
- 6.3 Input
-
6.4 Using response values in scripts
- Return values
- The response object
- Feedback with
- 6.5 Largeinput
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6.6 Select, radio, and scale
-
select() -
radio() -
scale()
-
- 6.7 Check
- 6.8 Sleep questionnaire example
- 6.9 Combining controls with startform() and endform()
- 6.10 Validation
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7 Data logging and handling
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7.1 Data logging with
log() - 7.2 Data that is always logged in ‘activated’ scripts
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7.3 Data tables in your account
- What a ‘session’ is
-
7.4 Data storage and retrieval
- Storing ‘behind the scenes’ or storing now
- Storing at the ‘script’ and ‘author’ level
-
increase()anddecrease()
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7.5 Working with the data tables
- Filtering data
-
7.6 Exporting data
- Pivot tables, or how to make your tables ‘square’ again
- 7.7 Logging, storing, and the ‘response’ object
- 7.8 Deleting data
- 7.9 Data Dashboard
-
7.1 Data logging with
-
8 Animation and drag-and-drop
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8.1 Animation
-
Feedback with
blink() -
Blinking other properties with
toggle() -
Using the
animate()function -
A general approach to animation with
RAF()-
Using icons with the
icon()function - An animation loop
-
Using icons with the
-
Feedback with
-
8.2 Drag-and-drop
- Drag-and-drop basics
- Dragging a block inside (on top of) another
- Drag-and-drop with multiple drop targets
- 8.3 Putting everything together: A simple game
-
8.1 Animation
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9 Sound
- 9.1 Preloading sounds
- 9.2 Advanced options
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10 Working with video
- 10.1 Subtitles and chapters
- 10.2 Advanced options
- 10.3 Supported video options
- 10.4 Getting the video player
- 10.5 Showing the same video simultaneously in two blocks
- 11 Graphics
- 12 Pivot Tables
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13 Synchronous and asynchronous programming
- 13.1 Asynchronous programming (is still possible in NeuroTask Scripting!)
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13.2 The
waitfor .. orconstruction
-
Appendix
- Background Code
-
Example Scripts
- Corsi Block Tapping Task
- Random Dot Pattern Recognition
- Notes
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