Getting started with NeuroTask Scripting, 2nd Edition

Getting started with NeuroTask Scripting, 2nd Edition

Jaap Murre
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Table of Contents

Getting started with NeuroTask Scripting, 2nd Edition

  • 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
    • 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 for loop
    • White Space
    • Variables
    • Assigning Values to Variables
    • Arrays
    • for loops
    • Parts of a for loop: Head and Body
    • Increment
    • Declaring Multiple Values at Once
    • Script 1.4: Even shorter scripts with getwords()
    • 1.4 You have started with online experiments!
  • 2 Capturing Keys and Reaction Times
    • 2.1 Achieving Precise Timing with await()
    • 2.2 Handling Various Types of Events with Await()
    • Click events
    • 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(), and awaitkey())
    • Reaction Time in Theory (Long-hand)
    • Reaction Time in Practice (Short-hand)
    • Reaction Times with Timeouts
    • 2.5 if...then statements
    • Operators
    • Order of Interpretation of Operators
    • 2.6 More Examples with Keyboard Events
    • Shift-Alt-Ctrl
    • 2.7 A More Complete Script for a Lexical Decision Task
  • 3 Screen layout with “Box” and “Block”
    • 3.1 Maintaining Experimental Control in an Online Setting: Layout
    • 3.2 Two Standard Layout Choices in NeuroTask: Fill and Square
    • The fill layout
    • The square layout
    • 3.3 Cross-Browser Layout Issues
    • Font size
    • Zooming and Text-Sizing
    • Font Type
    • Centering Text and Images
    • 3.4 The Backbone of Layout in NeuroTask: Box and Block
    • 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
    • 3.6 Block
    • Adding Blocks
    • Removing and Destroying Blocks
    • Removing vs. Destroying
    • Example Block Layouts
    • Showing Text in Blocks
    • Showing Images in Blocks
    • 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
  • 4 Images
    • 4.1 Visual recognition task
    • 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
    • 4.5 Resizing images
  • 5 Style
    • 5.1 Style with style()
    • Chaining of block function calls
    • 5.2 Setting font size of an entire Box
    • 5.3 Queries with tag name, class and id
    • 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
  • 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
    • 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
  • 7 Data logging and handling
    • 7.1 Data logging with log()
    • 7.2 Data that is always logged in ‘activated’ scripts
    • 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() and decrease()
    • 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
  • 8 Animation and drag-and-drop
    • 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
    • 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
  • 9 Sound
    • 9.1 Preloading sounds
    • 9.2 Advanced options
  • 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
  • 13 Synchronous and asynchronous programming
    • 13.1 Asynchronous programming (is still possible in NeuroTask Scripting!)
    • 13.2 The waitfor .. or construction
  • Appendix
    • Background Code
    • Example Scripts
    • Corsi Block Tapping Task
    • Random Dot Pattern Recognition
  • Notes
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