E-Prime® 2.0 Overview

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E-Prime® is a suite of applications to fulfill all of your computerized experiment needs. Used by more than 15,000 professionals in the research community, E-Prime® provides a truly easy-to-use environment for computerized experiment design, data collection, and analysis. E-Prime® provides millisecond precision timing to ensure the accuracy of your data. E-Prime's flexibility to create simple to complex experiments is ideal for both novice and advanced users.

The E-Prime® suite of applications includes:

• E-Studio - Drag and drop graphical interface for experiment design.
• E-Basic - Underlying scripting language of E-Prime (nearly identical to Visual Basic for Applications™).
• E-Run - Once experiment design is complete, a single mouse click generates it into an E-Basic script. E-Run then affords you the millisecond precision of stimulus presentation, synchronizations, and data collection.
• E-Merge - Quickly and easily combines your single session data files for group analysis.
• E-DataAid - Data management utility that allows you to filter, edit, analyze, and export your data.
• E-Recovery - Recovers data files in the event of early terminated experiments, or lost or corrupted files.

New with version 2.0

• Enhanced graphical interface
• Ability to play digital movies as stimuli (MPEG, AVI, WMV)
• Copy & paste objects between experiments
• Digital recording of participant vocalizations
• Increased display speed for bitmap transfers
• Support for additional image formats
• Support for presentation of stimuli on multiple video displays
• Display stimuli on any attached monitor
• Improved audio support
• Support for UNICODE and international fonts
• Support for new devices (Joystick, Parallel Port Device, Network Socket Device)
• Expanded support for larger scripts
• Improved documentation and indexing of online Help
• A comprehensive scripting language
• Professional version available with additional capabilities

E-Prime® is intended for research use only.

E-Prime® 2.0 Features
　

Feature	Standard	Professional
Experiment Presentation
DiDisplays image formats *.bmp, *.jpg, *.jpeg, *gif, *.png, *.tif, *.tiff, *.emf, *.wmf
Play movies in MPEG, AVI, or WMV formats
Play multiple movies simultaneously on critical timing trials
Play several different audio formats, including MP3 and WMA
Play audio files longer than 100 seconds (compared to E-Prime 1.x)
Present non-English stimuli using UNICODE-based fonts
Use multiple monitor displays
Select a monitor on which to display the entire experiment
Select a monitor on which to display each Toolbox or Canvas object
Record subject vocalizations using the SoundIn object
Record subject vocalizations 10 seconds or longer
User Support
Access web support, free minor updates, and service packs for 1 year
Access web support, free minor updates, and service packs for 3 years
Access the updated E-Basic Help
Experiment Design
Select from a dropdown of choices (ScriptSense™) for property, method, and data types after typing a period "." in an InLine object or user script (similar to IntelliSense™ in Microsoft environments)
View Property Tooltips when hovering over items in Structure view
Add Certified package files (from PST and industrial partners) to an experiment
Add user-authored package files to an experiment
Specify settings (e.g. screen resolution, subject number) in .startupInfo file using the StartupInfo editor to allow for dynamic processing of experiment without the need to regenerate or edit experiment file
Select from a dropdown of choices for attributes (AttribSense™) after opening a square bracket "[" in a TextDisplay or SlideText or using c.GetAttrib in an InLine object (similar to IntelliSense™ in Microsoft environments)
Specify properties to be based on a scheme value (e.g. all TextDisplay and SlideText objects should use Arial font)
Search and replace properties on objects with one value for another (e.g. change all BackColor values to black)
Access the Experiment Design Advisor to assist with common design errors
Ability to change background color/customize startup info screen
Load and transfer external values into experiment via StartupInfo
Create user PackageFiles using the PackageFile editor
Name and Tag properties on all E-Object property pages
Ability to copy/paste Objects in E-Studio
Ability to copy or clone SlideStates
Current line bookmarked for compile and runtime errors
Ability to use Shift+Delete to remove Objects from Structure
Ability to specify location path for data file
Double click E-Run files to start automatically
E-Merge can filter by file extension
Multiple experiments can be open at same time
AutoUpdate checks web and prompts when updates are available
E-Studio makes backup copy of experiment file
Interfacing with External Devices
Use serial port device in an experiment
Use multiple serial port devices per experiment
Use parallel port device in an experiment
Use multiple parallel port devices per experiment
Communicate with a network socket device (Ethernet)
Use multiple network socket devices per experiment
Communicate with a joystick device using X/Y coordinates and 4 response buttons
Use multiple joystick devices per experiment with input mask ability, X/Y coordinates, 8 response buttons, 2 slider controls, and 2 point-of-view controls
Specify a device to use at Onset/Offset time of an object and specify the duration (in milliseconds) of a corresponding signal pulse
Installation Options
Connect one hardware key to a network to allow the specified number of seats to simultaneously access E-Studio (Network License)
Configure and push out E-Prime installations using .msi file and msiexec
Configure installation settings such as AutoUpdate prompts and silent registration/setup
Use network management applications such as SMS and GPO
Subject station installation option
Supports MSIEXEC /qn and /qb silent installation options
Version 2.0 can exist on same machine as version 1.x

　

　

* PST reserves the right to change the intended feature set for E-Prime 2.0 Standard and E-Prime 2.0 Professional at any time.r>
* Critical trial movie playback dependent on ability of machine specifications.