Python for Experimental Psychologists

Table of contents

1. Cover
2. Half Title
3. Title Page
4. Copyright Page
5. Table of Contents
6. List of tables and figures
7. About this book
8. About Python
9. About the author
10. Acknowledgements
11. 1 Python
    1. Installation
    2. Interpreter
    3. Editor
12. 2 Variable types
    1. Numbers
    2. Assigning variables
    3. Booleans
    4. Letters
    5. Sets
    6. Classes
    7. Functions
    8. Make some noise
13. 3 Creating and presenting stimuli
    1. Scripts
    2. The display
    3. Running scripts
    4. Timing
    5. Screens
    6. Advanced: creating patches
    7. Comments
14. 4 Processing responses
    1. Are peripherals accurate enough?
    2. Keyboard input
    3. If statements
    4. While loops
    5. Make some noise
15. 5 Scripting an experiment
    1. Constants
    2. Creating Screens
    3. Instructions Screen
    4. A single trial
    5. For loop
    6. Logging values
    7. Display timing
    8. Randomisation
    9. Make some noise
16. 6 Analysing behavioural data
    1. Analysis plan
    2. Extracting data
    3. Selecting data
    4. Averaging data
    5. Plotting data
    6. Combining datasets
    7. Statistical testing
17. 7 Analysing traces
    1. Introduction
    2. Read eye-tracker data
    3. Plot your first trace
    4. Averaging traces
18. 8 Eye tracking
    1. Introduction
    2. Creating an eye-tracking experiment
    3. Processing gaze data
19. 9 Getting help
20. Appendix: Code listing
21. References
22. Index