PsychoPy2: Experiments in behavior made easy
By Jonathan Westley Peirce, Jeremy R. Gray, Sol Simpson, Michael R. MacAskill, Richard Höchenberger, Hiroyuki Sogo, Erik K. Kastman, Jonas Kristoffer Lindeløv. Behavior Research Methods, 2019
4,363 citations recorded by the source corpus.
PsychoPy is an application for the creation of experiments in behavioral science (psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, etc.) with precise spatial control and timing of stimuli. It now provides a choice of interface; users can write scripts in Python if they choose, while those who prefer to construct experiments graphically can use the new Builder interface. Here we describe the features that have been added over the last 10 years of its development. The most notable addition has been that Builder interface, allowing users to create studies with minimal or no programming, while also allowing the insertion of Python code for maximal flexibility. We also present some of the other new features, including further stimulus options, asynchronous time-stamped hardware polling, and better support for open science and reproducibility. Tens of thousands of users now launch PsychoPy every month, and more than 90 people have contributed to the code. We discuss the current state of the project, as well as plans for the future.
Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Citations in the corpus
- The timing mega-study: comparing a range of experiment generators, both lab-based and online (2020, background): “Framework: Peirce et al. (2020): “The timing mega-study: comparing a range of experiment generators, both lab-based and online”.”
- The generalizability crisis (2019, background): “, & Tracy, J. L. (2017). The jingle and jangle of”
- Examination of distraction and discomfort caused by using glare monitors: a simultaneous electroencephalography and eye-tracking study (2023, methodology): “The stimulus trigger was sent via a serial port from the stimulus presentation program created by PsychoPy (Peirce et al., 2019), and EEG data and the trigger were simultaneously recorded using Emotiv Pro software.”
- Skill and experience impact neural activity during global and local biological motion processing. (2023, unknown): “3 (Peirce et al., 2019) to pre-sent study stimuli.”