Subject: Re: Perceptual experiments From: Anders Genell <anders.genell@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:49:17 +0100Tarun! 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 ----------------------------------- 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@xxxxxxxx> 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 > phone: (+45) 96 35 87 28 > fax: (+45) 98 15 21 44 > email: pfh@xxxxxxxx > > > 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 >> >> ----------------------------------------- >> Tarun Pruthi >> Graduate Research Assistant, ECE >> Room 3180, A V Williams Building >> University of Maryland, College Park >> MD 20742 USA >> Email: tpruthi@xxxxxxxx >> Web: www.ece.umd.edu/~tpruthi >> Ph: 301-405-1365 >> ---------------------------------------- >> >