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Software for stimulus presentation
Matlab-or Octave-based stimulus presentation library.
+ Multi-platform (Linux, Mac, Windows). + Very powerful and with support for numerous hardware peripherals (e.g. eye tracking, data recording). + Extremely precise control of timing for recording responses and presenting stimuli (especially visual). + Large user community and active forum + Numerous well documented demo functions that can be readily modified to suit new experiments + Free and open source - Difficult to learn and requires reasonable command of Matlab/Octave - No GUI interface
Python-based stimulus presentation library.
+ Powerful and easy to use with an optional drag-and-drop GUI + Large user community + Generally good control of timing + Well documented - Some parts are proprietary/commercial