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Python for Experimental Psychologists, 2nd Edition
by Edwin S. Dalmaijer, Rebecca Hirst, Jonathan Peirce
November 2024
Intermediate to advanced
200 pages
5h 22m
English
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3 Creating and Presenting Stimuli
Rebecca J. Hirst, Jonathan W. Peirce, and Edwin S. Dalmaijer
In this chapter, you will learn how to create some basic stimuli (text, shapes, images) and how to present these on a computer display. You’ll also learn how to manipulate images using some external libraries and how to make stimuli “dynamic” (i.e. moving and interactive). To do this, you will write scripts in which you will use classes from a package known as PsychoPy (Peirce, 2007, 2009).
PsychoPy can do pretty much anything you could need in a psychological experiment. This includes presenting stimuli on a monitor; producing sound; collecting responses from keyboards, computer mice, joysticks, and controllers; communicating ...
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