Re: Perceptual experiments

[Anders Genell <anders.genell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tarun!
Allthough I couldn't agree more with Pablo about learning an (object  
oriented) programming language, such as c++, there is an alternative that  
might by useful, namely E-prime
http://www.pstnet.com/products/e-prime/
It can be used to collect all kinds of psychofysical data with the help of  
a computer and the programming is done in an environment similar to Visual  
Basic, which might be less intimidating than starting from scratch with  
c++.

Regards,
Anders Genell
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Doctoral student
Chalmers Room Acoustics Group
Division of Applied Acoustics
Chalmers University of Technology
S-412 96 Göteborg
Sweden

On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 13:00:04 +0100, Pablo Faundez Hoffmann  
<pfh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hej Tarun,
>
> I found myself with the same question at the beginning of my PhD two  
> years ago. I don't have experience with any special software for  
> perceptual experiments. Well, since you mentioned you are completely new  
> to this I assume you are at the starting point of your research, so, I  
> would strongly recommend you to learn a programming language (if you  
> don't know one already) and program your experiments yourself. I know it  
> might look scaring at the beginning but certainly pays off. The main  
> advantage I see, is that there are no black boxes in your experiment  
> chain, you can have complete control over it and adjust everything as  
> you wish. If you focus on learning object-oriented programming you will  
> realize that you can easily reuse code for further experiments without  
> spending so much time.
>
> regards,
>
>
> Pablo Faundez Hoffmann
> Ph.D. Student
> Department of Acoustics
> Aalborg University
> Frederik Bajers Vej 7 B5
> DK-9220 Aalborg
> Denmark
>
> office: B4-201
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>
>
>   On Jan 31, 2006, at 2:24 PM, Tarun Pruthi wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I plan to do some perceptual experiments during the course of my  
> > research here. Since, I am completely new to this, I wanted to know if  
> > there are any softwares that help in doing perceptual experiments  
> > (organising stimuli, collecting results, designing questionairre,  
> > making the interface etc)?
> >
> > Thanks and Regards
> > Tarun
> >
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