Interest in stimulus presentation software help?

[Michael Cohn]

Many of the current and upcoming Reproducibility Project studies can be replicated with a small number of subject pool subjects and no special expertise, but they require stimulus presentation software such as E-prime, PsyScope, or Inquisit. Are there folks on this list whose only obstacle to doing a replication is access to the proper software?

If so, perhaps we could put together a group of volunteers to translate experimental scripts into one of the various free packages available, such as PsyScope or PsychoPy! 

Please contact me if you 1) need access to stimulus presentation software in order to replicate a study, or 2) have experience with any stimulus presentation software packages, and are interested in learning to port existing scripts to other packages. 

Thanks,

- Michael

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Michael A. Cohn
Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

[Jeremy Gray]

I could help with PsychoPy, as needed.

--Jeremy

[Stepan Bahnik]

I don't know either of the packages, but I have good knowledge of Python, so I should be able to learn PsychoPy easily or help with other scripts if needed.

[sheila miguez]

Likewise, if I have enough time. You might consider having a sprint at one of the python conferences. US pycon is in the spring. US SciPy is in the summer, and there are regional pycons on most continents.

I'm heading over to pycon Canada this week and plan to help with the software-carpentry.org sprint, which is an effort to teach good software engineering practices to scientists.

[Jon Peirce]

Yes, Jeremy Gray and I are the two major developers of the PsychoPy package and are both on this list. So there's plenty of help available building experiments in that. I'm afraid I'm not volunteering actually to run the studies - too busy writing the software!

It would be great if the experiment materials, once created were uploaded to the openscienceframework pages and linked on the spreadsheet of replications. I couldn't see any sign of that yet, but maybe I'm missing something?

Jon

[Michael Cohn]

I'm excited to hear from so many people who are interested in helping port experiment scripts to an open platform! Unfortunately, we haven't heard from anyone who's interested in actually running these experiments yet, but I'm sure they're out there.

I recently volunteered to help match new contributors with appropriate studies, so I'll make sure they know about this possibility, and I'll email everyone who's expressed interest with updates.

Thank you!

- Michael

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Michael A. Cohn
Osher Center for Integrative Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

[Elizabeth Bartmess]

We're asking people to make their project public on the openscienceframework site once their replication is complete, although we're asking people participating in the prediction market to wait until that's done.  You can see a completed project, which we also use as an example, here: http://openscienceframework.org/project/RC6mv/wiki/home

I had not thought about linking to them from the replications spreadsheet but that's not a bad idea. 

Elizabeth

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Elizabeth Bartmess
Project Coordinator, Reproducibility Project

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 2:02 AM, Jon Peirce <jon.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Angela Staples]

Hi Michael, I just agreed to replicate one of the studies that used stimulus presentation software [Richler, Gauthier, Wenger & Palmeri, 2008, JEP:LMC]. The authors used Matlab with PsychToolbox. The original code is not available. I would like to use PsychoPy for the replication. Can you connect me with someone who can help out with the programming and/or has a script that I can work from? 

Best,

Angela

[Jeremy Gray]

Hi Angela,

I'm happy to help out with psychopy. I can't take on completely writing the script for you, but am happy to suggest things and help trouble shoot all the way through the process. Email me directly, and we can take it from there.

--Jeremy

[Michael Cohn]

Hi, Angela. I think we should be able to help you! There are a number of experienced psychopy users on the project. What I would suggest is that you write up a precise description of what you need the script to do (e.g., display instructions, randomize participants, display fixation cross, show random stimulus from set X, repeat for 100 trials).

Once we have that, I can pass it on to a volunteer who can implement the script and help you install it. Does that sound like it would work for you?

Thanks for taking on a replication. I'm looking forward to working with you!

- Michael