PsychoPy is an open-source application to allow the presentation of stimuli and collection of data for a wide range of neuroscience, psychology and psychophysics experiments. It’s a free, powerful alternative to Presentation™ or e-Prime™, written in Python (a free alternative to Matlab™ ).

News

Video tutorial: You can now see a youtube PsychoPy tutorial showing you how to build a simple experiment in the Builder interface

Latest version: 1.73.05 was released March 2012. See complete Changelog

Work has now begun on 1.74.00 which wil bring new data file formats, HSV color space and more detailed info about key presses.

VSS Workshop

We will be running a small-group workshop (probably limit to 30 people) for PsychoPy as a satellite at VSS on the Thursday before the main conference starts. Registration is required. See VSS 2012 Satellite Event, May 2012 for further details

Contents

• Documentation
  • Overview
  • Contributing to the project
  • Credits
  • Installation
  • Getting Started
  • General issues
  • Builder - building experiments in a GUI
  • Coder - writing experiments with scripts
  • Troubleshooting
  • Recipes (“How-to”s)
  • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
  • Resources (e.g. for teaching)
  • Reference Manual (API)
  • For Developers
  • PsychoPy Experiment file format (.psyexp)
  • Glossary
  • Indices

• Changelog
• Screenshots
• Links