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A graphical experiment builder for the social sciences

Project description

OpenSesame

OpenSesame is a tool to create experiments for psychology, neuroscience, and experimental economics.

Copyright, 2010-2022, Sebastiaan Mathôt and contributors.

http://osdoc.cogsci.nl/

Build Status

Features

  • A user-friendly interface — a modern, professional, and easy-to-use graphical interface
  • Online experiments — run your experiment in a browser with OSWeb
  • Python — add the power of Python to your experiment
  • JavaScript — add the power of JavaScript to your experiment
  • Use your devices — use your eye tracker, button box, EEG equipment, and more.
  • Free — released under the GPL3
  • Crossplatform — Windows, Mac OS, and Linux

Branches

Each major version of OpenSesame lives in its own branch. The default branch is currently loewenfeld.

  • gibson - 2.8
  • heisenberg - 2.9
  • ising - 3.0
  • james - 3.1
  • kuhn - 3.2
  • loewenfeld - 3.3

About

OpenSesame is a graphical experiment builder. OpenSesame provides an easy to use, point-and-click interface for creating psychological/ neuroscientific experiments.

Citations

Mathôt, S., Schreij, D., & Theeuwes, J. (2012). OpenSesame: An open-source, graphical experiment builder for the social sciences. Behavior Research Methods, 44(2), 314-324. doi:10.3758/s13428-011-0168-7

Mathôt, S., & March, J. (in press). Conducting linguistic experiments online with OpenSesame and OSWeb. Language Learning.
Related preprint (not identical to published manuscript)

License

OpenSesame is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License 3. The full license should be included in the file COPYING, or can be obtained from:

OpenSesame contains works of others. For the full license information, please refer to debian/copyright.

Documentation

Installation instructions and documentation are available on the documentation website ...

... which is itself also hosted on GitHub:

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