Resources (e.g. for teaching)

There are a number of further resources to help learn/teach about PsychoPy.

If you also have PsychoPy materials/course then please let us know so that we can link to them from here too!

Workshops

At Nottingham we run an annual workshop on Python/PsychoPy (ie. programming, not Builder). Please see the page on PsychoPy official workshops for further details.

Youtube tutorials

• Youtube PsychoPy tutorial showing how to build a basic experiment in the Builder interface. That’s a great way to get started; build your own complete experiment in 15 minutes flat!
• There’s also a subtitled version of the stroop video tutorial (Thanks Kevin Cole for doing that!)
• Jason Ozubko has added a series of great PsychoPy Builder video tutorials too
• Damien Mannion added a similarly great series of PsychoPy programming videos on YouTube

Materials for Builder

• The most comprehensive guide is the book Building Experiments in PsychoPy by Peirce and MacAskill. The book is suitable for a wide range of needs and skill sets, with 3 sections for:

  • The Beginner (suitable for undergraduate teaching)
  • The Professional (more detail for creating more precise studies)
  • The Specialist (with info about specialist needs such as studies in fMRI, EEG, …)

• At School of Psychology, University of Nottingham, PsychoPy is now used for all first year practical class teaching. The classes that comprise that first year course are provided below. They were created partially with funding from the former Higher Education Academy Psychology Network. Note that the materials here will be updated frequently as they are further developed (e.g. to update screenshots etc) so make sure you have the latest version of them!

  PsychoPy_pracs_2011v2.zip (21MB) (last updated: 15 Dec 2011)

• The GestaltReVision group (University of Leuven) wiki covering PsychoPy (some Builder info and great tutorials for Python/PsychoPy coding of experiments).

Materials for Coder

• Please see the page on PsychoPy official workshops for further details on coming to an intensive residential Python workshop in Nottingham.
• Marco Bertamimi’s book, Programming Illusions for Everyone is a fun way to learn about stimulus rendering in PsychoPy by learning how to create visual illusions
• Gary Lupyan runs a class on programming experiments using Python/PsychoPy and makes his lecture materials available on this wiki
• The GestaltReVision group (University of Leuven) offers a three-day crash course to Python and PsychoPy on a IPython Notebook, and has lots of great information taking you from basic programming to advanced techniques.
• Radboud University, Nijmegen also has a PsychoPy programming course
• Programming for Psychology in Python - Vision Science has lessons and screencasts on PsychoPy (Damien Mannion, UNSW Australia).

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Previous events

• ECEM, August 2013 : Python for eye-tracking workshop with (Sol Simpson, Michael MacAskill and Jon Peirce). Download Python-for-eye-tracking materials

• VSS 2012 Satellite Event, May 2012

• Yale, 21-23 July : The first ever dedicated PsychoPy workshop/conference was at Yale, 21-23 July 2011. Thanks Jeremy for organising!

• EPS Satellite workshop, 8 July 2011

• BPS Maths Stats and Computing Section workshop (Dec 2010):