now they are just collections of trials, rather than having significant
functionality for running the experiment. the running code is now part
of the jsPsych object.
however, this will probably not be able to happen until the code for
creating trials is refactored somewhat. it’s difficult to specify trial
parameters without editing each plugin manually. when plugins can have
standardized values, then the other half of this can go in.
Can now pass ‘show_progress_bar: true’ to init method to display a
progress bar throughout the experiment.
* default styling has been added to jspsych.css for the progress bar
* bug fixes to jspsych.progress method to support this change (bug was
related to getting progress after experiment had ended)
* improved logic for when on_finish_trial callback function will trigger
records default data for all trials:
- trial type
- trial index within the block
- trial index for entire experiment (global index -- related to issue #63)
- added adaptive category training
- categorize multi and samedifferentloc are incomplete and untested
- fixed issue with core file that caused failure when init method was
called twice.
free sort is a plugin that displays a set of stimuli and records the
movements that participants make as they drag the stimuli to sort them.
sorting is unconstrained (i.e. there are no specific groups that
participants are told to sort into).
// core.progress returns an object with the following properties
// total_blocks: the number of total blocks in the experiment
// total_trials: the number of total trials in the experiment
// current_trial_global: the current trial number in global terms
// i.e. if each block has 20 trials and the experiment is
// currently in block 2 trial 10, this has a value of 30.
// current_trial_local: the current trial number within the block.
// current_block: the current block number.
Useful for showing user progress through the experiment. Planning to add
an option to show a progress bar in the future.
jspsych-similarity.js : fixed data storage so that generic data object
was included in the block's data.
jspsych-storybook.js: included generic data object in data storage,
included path to image in data storage.
jspsych.js: cosmetic adjustment to code in finishExperiment() method.
NEW:
added call-function plugin, which calls a user-specified function.
useful for saving data before completion.
added paint plugin - displays a canvas element superimposed on an image
and allows subjects to draw on the image to indicate areas of interest.
changes to the core jspsych.js file will break some backwards
compatibility. script files are no longer loaded dynamically, due to
issues with using $.getScript on local installations. this revision
makes defining a list of plugins unnecessary; they are automatically
recognized based on the experiment structure.
changes to similarity plugin: display is now sequential.
adding storybook plugin: this is an ipad plugin, which displays a single
image and records the location of touch events.
The top level object is jsPsych, and plugins are defined as jsPsych.PLUGIN.
The library also loads everything dynamically now, so the user only needs to load the main jsPsych script (and specify the src for any plugins).
This also changes how the library is loaded initially, since it is not based on the jQuery method anymore. See wiki.
Plugins now have a consistent internal structure, with better variable scoping.
This version breaks backward compatibility due to a change in the syntax of how experiment objects are declared.
