by Erik Marsja | Jan 11, 2019 | Experimental Design, Open Science, Open Source, Psychology
In this OpenSesame tutoria,l we will learn how to use images as stimuli and how to load the trials; including filenames, correct responses, and conditions from a pre-generated CSV file. To follow this tutorial you don’t need to know Python programming. However,... 
by Erik Marsja | Mar 26, 2017 | Experimental Design, Open Science, Open Source, Psychology
In this post, you are going to learn how to create a simple experiment using the free experiment building software OpenSesame. As I have previously written about, OpenSesame, is an application, based on Python, for creating Psychology, Neuroscience, and Economics... 
by Erik Marsja | Dec 3, 2015 | Experimental Design, Programming, Psychology, Python
I am getting better at writing Python code and I am starting to feel an itch to extend my toolbox and learn more about programming. Therefore, one step in that direction is to learn a new programming language next year (i.e., 2016). I would like to learn a relatively... by Erik Marsja | Nov 9, 2015 | Experimental Design, Programming, Psychology, Psychopy, Python
I have created a PsychoPy script for the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) and a Vigilance Task. Both of the tasks are very similar. In SART the task is to press the key space as fast and accurate as possible on all targets (digits 1, 2, 4–9) except for one... by Erik Marsja | Oct 14, 2014 | Experimental Design, Psychology
My current research focus on how attention can be captured by deviating stimuli. I will briefly describe the paradigm I have used – the cross-modal oddball task. Before I go into the cross-modal oddball task I will describe the auditory oddball task. In the...
