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Since the simplified, yet analogous

<values>
/ Item_index = 0
</values>

<text mytext>
/ items = myitems
/ select = values.Item_index
/ position = (50%, 40%)
</text>

<text item_name>
/ items = (" Item name = <% text.mytext.currentitem %>")
/ position = (50%, 60%)
</text>

<item myitems>
/ 1 = "A"
/ 2 = "B"
/ 3 = "C"
/ 4 = "D"
</item>

<trial mytrial>
/ ontrialbegin = [values.Item_index=noreplace(1,2,3,4)]
/ stimulusframes = [1=mytext, item_name]
/ validresponse = (anyresponse)
</trial>

<block myblock>
/ trials = [1-4=mytrial]
</block>

works perfectly fine as far as I can tell (also with <video> elements instead of <text>, I would suspect there is a mistake somewhere in your script's logic. Since the script you attached cannot be run due to the missing dependencies (picture, video and sound files), I can't tell you where that mistake may be. I would recommend you first make a simple test case script along the lines of the above, verify that it works as intended and then go back to the full script to track down the error(s).

Regards,

~Dave

So I have a partial answer, with a followup question.  The two references (in the text element and Item_number assignment statement) were wrong because they occurred before the video.prompt_snd item was updated with the current item index.  When I moved the text element after the prompt_snd element in the stimulustimes line, the problem was fixed.  Similarly, when I moved the item_number assignment to ontrialend instead of ontrialbegin, that problem was fixed.  So my conclusion is that using this method, the currentitem is not updated until the element is called in the stimulustimes attribute.  Is that correct?  

Jeff

Yes. Sampling for elements occurs in the order specified in /stimulusframes or /stimulustimes.