User`s guide

E-Prime User’s Guide

Appendix C: Sample Experiments

Page A-37

The E-Prime installation includes sample experiments illustrating some of the essential elements

with E-Studio:

BasicRT – A basic RT task presenting text.

PictureRT – A basic RT task presenting bitmaps.

SoundRT – A basic RT task presenting text and audio stimuli simultaneously.

NestingRT – A basic RT task using the nesting feature of the List object.

SlideRT – A basic RT task using the Slide object for stimulus presentation.

NestingXRT – A modification of the NestingRT experiment illustrating extended input.

These samples (*.ES and associated files) may be found in the Samples folder in the E-Prime

installation directory tree (default installation is C:\My Experiments\Samples).

Basic Reaction Time: Text

The BasicRT experiment illustrates a simple reaction time experiment presenting a fixation and a

text stimulus, and collecting a response to the stimulus. The BasicRT experiment illustrates the

use of the List object, the TextDisplay object, the Procedure object, and the FeedbackDisplay

object.