PsychoPy 1.74.03

Developer: Website: License / Price: Platforms: Databases: Language: Last Updated: Category: Jonathan Peirce | More scripts www.psychopy.org GPL - GNU General Public License  Windows / Linux / Mac OS / BSD / Solaris N/A Python August 23rd, 2012, 00:55 GMT [view history] C: \ Scientific/Engineering \ Chemistry and Physics

An alternative to MATLAB, PsychoPy is an open-source package for creating and managing psychology stimuli in Python.

PsychoPy combines the graphical strengths of OpenGL with the easy Python syntax to give psychophysics a free and simple stimulus presentation and control package.

It can allow the presentation of stimuli and collections of data for a wide range of psychology, neuroscience and psychophysics experiments.

Here are some key features of "PsychoPy":

Features:
· Simple install process
· Platform independent - run the same script on Win, OS X or Linux
· Flexible stimulus units (degrees, cm, or pixels)
· Coder interface for those that like to program
· Builder interface for those that don't
· Input from keyboard, mouse or button boxes
· Multi-monitor support
· Automated monitor calibration (requires PR650 or Minolta LS110)

Hardware Integration:
· Communication via serial ports
· Communication via parallel ports
· Communication via compiled drivers (dlls and dylibs)

Interfaces are prebuilt for:
· Spectrascan PR650
· Minolta LS110
· Cambridge Research Systems Bits++
· Cedrus response boxes (RB7xx series)

Huge variety of stimuli generated in real-time:
· Linear gratings, bitmaps constantly updating
· Radial gratings
· Random dots
· Movies (DivX, mov, mpg...)
· Text (unicode in any truetype font)
· Shapes
· Sounds (tones, numpy arrays, wav, ogg...)

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

FIXED:
· The multiline text entry box in the Builder Text Component was broken.

IMPROVED:
· Serial (RS232) interface to fORP button box to avoid recording repeated presses. Does not affect use of fORP box from USB interface.

Via: PsychoPy 1.74.03