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Links to Alternative Products
This list is neither complete nor up to date. For additional
software packages check the recent editions
of Behavior Research
Methods. My impression is that almost every editions contains at
least one new software package for this same purpose.
[ Notes are copied from the respective program's WWW-site. Order is
alphabetically. ]
- ActiveSTIM
- "... assists
creation of computer based experiments for research in vision,
behavioral and cognitive sciences." (October 18, 2005)
- DirectRT and MediaLab
- "... is the most powerful psychology software available for the
Windows PC." (February 3, 2006)
- DMDX
- "... is a Win 32-based display system used in psychological
laboratories around the world to measure reaction times to visual and
auditory stimuli." (April 12, 2002)
- E-Prime
- "... is the revolutionary suite of applications which
comprehensively fulfills your research needs." (May 23, 2005)
- Inquisit
- "... is the tool of choice for behavioral scientists throughout
the world for creating ... experiments in
cognition and perception." (February 3, 2006)
- Presentation
- "... is a high-precision program for stimulus delivery and
experimental control for behavioral and physiological experiments."
(May 23, 2005)
- PsychoPy
- "... to provide, for the busy scientist [...], tools to control timing
and windowing and a simple set of pre-packaged stimuli and methods."
(Oct 16, 2006)
- Psychtoolbox
- "... a free set of Matlab functions for vision research" (Oct 16, 2006)
- SuperLab
- "... without any doubt, the easiest way to build an experiment
..." (Oct 16, 2006)
- Tscope
- " ... is a C/C++ library aimed at experiment programming." (Mar,
9, 2007)
- Vission Egg
- "... is a powerful, flexible, and free way to produce stimuli
for vision research experiments." (May 24, 2005)
Only Windows based products are listed here. See Hans
Strasburger's "Software for visual psychophysics list" for a more
comprehensive list of experimental control packages or the Vision Science Resources Software list for software for other
operating systems.
Additional Links of Interest
- A
comparative implementation of two experiments
- in three of the
above mentioned software packages written by Dr. Christoph Stahl.
You may find the PXLab
implementation of the Lexical Decision Task and the Remember-Know
Memory Test in PXLab's collection of lab course experiments.
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