Ambassador Story: Creating Experiments with PsychoPy and Pavlovia at ACNS 2025
In August 2024, I had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Rebecca (Becca) Hirst at the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP). During this time, I expressed...
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perspectives
Perspective story: Sue Lynn Mah
Origin story
Contributor story: Abbey Roelofs
Background
Contributor story: Hiroyuki Sogo
How did you start using PsychoPy?
Contributor story: Shun Wang
Background
Contributor story: Patrick Bolger
Patrick’s background
Perspective story: Amy Woodcock
Hi, I’m Amy Woodcock, and I’m an A-Level student in the UK who’s interested in studying psychology at university next year. I’ve just completed a week of wo...
PsychoPy
Using PsychoPy in animal research
Using PsychoPy to create animal behaviour paradigms Animal behaviour research aims to understand how different animals interact with each other and their env...
PsychoPy Studio: the app we love, reimagined
It’s now over 20 years since PsychoPy’s humble beginnings as an open-source Python library to help users present high-precision stimuli and collect responses...
To build, or not to build, that is the question
This is a somewhat heated debate - we have scientists arguing passionately1 for both sides; that users must always write their own code by hand, or that peop...
The origins of PsychoPy
The seeds of PsychoPy were planted in early 2000s when Jon Peirce was a visual neuroscience postdoc at NYU. Jon had been using Matlab for his PhD and postdoc...