Release Notes#

0.2.0 (2019-02-07)#

• Makefile
  • build wrongly used minutes instead of months for filenames
  • now throws an error if not on master or if uncommited changes — can be avoided with any value to the FORCE parameter (e.g. make build FORCE=yes)
• _base_expyriment
  • Config option for experiment_text_size in [GENERAL], which should scale all dependent text sizes downstream; defaults (like expyriment) to 20
  • new function _load_block_settings appends settings to block (trial possible as well) dynamically and adds factors to block and trial output if varying across blocks
  • getforblock can now cast to bool with the configuration settings (e.g. yes, no)
  • implement median function for aggregated output
  • translations accessed by underscore (_) are utf-8 decoded now (previously non-ascii characters could throw an error if they were logged to the events file)
  • _show_message
    • now passes **kwargs to stimuli.TextScreen
    • can stall the screen (stall= in ms) before continuation is possible
    • a block can be passed (block=) to allow customised captions:
    • all texts can now be adjusted to a practice block using caption_key[practice]
    • specific blocks can have different texts using for example caption_key[block:2] (1-indexed)
    • captions (the top) can now be highlighted (bold + red) using caption_key[highlight] = yes
    • they can all be combined in the order listed here, so caption_key[practice][block:2][highlight] highlights caption_key in block two if it is a practice block
• n-back task
  • configuration for canvas_size and num_boxes can now vary by block
• simple RT task
  • revise instructions
  • add Spanish translation (thanks, Lucía!)
• digit-span task
  • separate configuration options for input_offset and stimulus_offset, and introduce a [ANDROID] section with input_offset only for Android devices
  • introduce a input_method option for [ANDROID] to turn off the on-screen keyboard
  • make configuration options trials, sequence_type, starting_length, and reverse possible to vary by block
  • introduce separate instructions for trials in reverse order: instruction_reverse, remember_sequence_reverse, incorrect_trial_reverse
  • introduce separate instruction when the reverse flag changed between blocks (instruction_title_changed) and delay continuation
  • revised English instructions
  • added Spanish translation (thanks, Lucía!)
• trail-making task
  • added Spanish translation (thanks, Lucía!)

0.1.3 (2019-01-24)#

Some versions of the android app did not start the main-function automatically. This is fixed now. All tasks have been tested and shown to work.

0.1.2 (2018-12-24)#

The ConfigParser class was replaced with a custom class as this was not available on the Android app. Furthermore some bugs regarding python2/3 compatibility were fixed.

0.1.1 (2018-11-30)#

Four tasks added:

• Simple Reaction Time Task
• N-Back Task
• Trailmaking Task
• Digit Span Task

Plus a boilerplate for more experiments. Currently, there are no tutorials or practice sessions implemented.

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