Re: Perceptual experiments

[Pablo Faundez Hoffmann <pfh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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

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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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