PscyhoPy as alternative to E-Prime?

[Michiel Sovijarvi-Spape]

Hi,

My 2p: PsychoPy is extremely popular around Nottingham, but then again, the
main developer of the software, Jonathan Peirce, does work there (at
Nottingham Uni, School of Psychology, where I did a postdoc, not Trent, but
I suppose the influence spreads). He is quite approachable, so if you want
to check it out, David, I think you’d best either ask him (or the community)
or install the software yourself, because I can only give you my few
impressions:

* It is pretty good, and they are making the visual drag-and-drop interface
better. The coder is aware of E-Prime and how difficult students can find
it, and has made sure that a lot of it is quite intuitive: loops (re-running
the same trial procedure), for example, are displayed as loops (if I
remember correctly). 

* Somebody mentioned python and paradigm: psychopy is built on top of
psychopy and the UI just generates python code. So yes, you can do
“scripting” (urgh), in python. Personally I really dislike Python and felt
this was the most annoying problem of PsychoPy. I am quite certain this is
just me being lazy: I’d sooner learn more C, C++, C#, basic, java, etc, than
learn yet another language… Finnish is difficult enough for now.

* PsychoPy has really cool stimulus features that are both part of Python
(better drawing classes than ebasic) and possibly because of Jonathan’s
interests in psychophysics. Want to display a gabor stimulus in a fine lines
of code? You can! Want to make it rotate? Right-on! …okay, I admit I seldom
want to do that sort of thing, but I’ve come to appreciate that some people
like it.

* I think E-Prime really shines in doing RT experiments, priming experiments
with fantastically accurate timing. PST seems also really fond of that sort
of thing, so I’m suspecting PsychoPy isn’t as well-tested. You can and
should test that, though :)

Hope that helps!

Michiel

 

 

 

From: e-prime at googlegroups.com [mailto:e-prime at googlegroups.com] On Behalf
Of Joyce Humphries
Sent: 09 October 2012 12:09
To: e-prime at googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: PscyhoPy as alternative to E-Prime?

 

Hi,

 

I went to an introductory course for this at Nottingham Trent a while ago.
It is quite similar to E-prime in a lot of ways, but appears to be much
easier to use; simply take a while for you to find your way around. I have
only used it for very basic experiments, but from the training session it is
very user friendly, with the bonus of being free.

 

Not sure if this has helped any.

 

J

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:04 PM, David McFarlane <mcfarla9 at msu.edu
<mailto:mcfarla9 at msu.edu> > wrote:

Does anybody have any experience with PsychoPy (http://psychopy.org/ ) as an
alternative to E-Prime, or just have any thoughts on this?

Thanks,
-- David McFarlane

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