psychopy – environment for creating psychology stimuli in Python¶
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PsychoPy provides an environment for creating psychology stimuli using Python scripting language. It combines the graphical strengths of OpenGL with easy Python syntax to give psychophysics a free and simple stimulus presentation and control package.
The goal is to provide, for the busy scientist, tools to control timing and windowing and a simple set of pre-packaged stimuli and methods. PsychoPy features
- IDE GUI for coding in a powerful scripting language (Python)
- Builder GUI for rapid development of stimulation sequences
- Use of hardware-accelerated graphics (OpenGL)
- Integration with Spectrascan PR650 for easy monitor calibration
- Simple routines for staircase and constant stimuli experimental methods as well as curve-fitting and bootstrapping
- Simple (or complex) GUIs via wxPython
- Easy interfaces to joysticks, mice, sound cards etc. via PyGame
- Video playback (MPG, DivX, AVI, QuickTime, etc.) as stimuli
- Reference:
- J. W. Peirce (2007). PsychoPy - Psychophysics software in Python. *Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 162:8-13, *, . [Abstract] [DOI]
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