Comparison of behavioral experiment software

Behavior experiment software is used in cognitive science, in particular experimental psychology to carry out experiments. Typically, this type of software can at least present stimuli and record data from devices that can measure manual (or other) responses. There is a considerable variety of commercial and open source software available. The journal Behavior Research Methods frequently publishes articles about this type of software, and many of the developers meet at the annual meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology.

These packages below differ in various aspects (as listed in the table below). Some software is proprietary, and some is available as free software. Some packages have a graphical user interface. Some packages have a scripting language, some don't need one. Some offer a software library with functions of interest to experimental psychology for a programming language.

Name	Operating System	License type	GUI	Scripting language	Library
Cogent for MATLAB [1]	Microsoft Windows	Free Software	No	Yes	MATLAB
DirectRT [2]	Microsoft Windows	Proprietary Software	Yes	Yes	No
DMDX [3] and Visual DMDX [4]	Microsoft Windows	Free Software	No	Yes	No
E-Prime [5]	Microsoft Windows	Proprietary Software	Yes	Yes	No
EventIDE [6]	Microsoft Windows	Proprietary Software	Yes	Yes	No
Experimental Run-Time System [7]	Microsoft Windows	Proprietary Software	Unknown	Yes	No
Expo [8]	Mac	Unknown	Yes	Yes	No
Expyriment [9]	Linux Mac Microsoft Windows	Free Software	No	Yes	Python
Gorilla [10]	Web-based	Proprietary Software	Yes	Yes	JavaScript
Inquisit [11]	Mac Microsoft Windows	Proprietary Software	Yes	Yes	No
JATOS [12]	Microsoft Windows OS X Linux	Free Software	Yes	Yes	JavaScript
jsPsych [13]	Web-based	Free Software	Yes	Yes	JavaScript
OpenSesame [14]	Microsoft Windows OS X Linux	Free Software	Yes	Yes	Python
Paradigm [15]	Microsoft Windows iOS	Proprietary Software	Yes	Yes	Python
PEBL [16]	Linux Mac Microsoft Windows	Free Software	No	Yes	No
Presentation [17]	Microsoft Windows	Proprietary Software	Yes	Yes	Python
ProtoGenie [18]	Web-based	Proprietary Software	Yes	No	No
PsychoPy [19]	Linux Mac Microsoft Windows	Free Software	Yes	Yes	Python
Psykinematix [20]	Mac	Proprietary Software	Yes	No	No
PsyScope X [21]	Mac	Free Software	Yes	Yes	Unknown
PsyToolkit [22]	Linux	Free Software	No	Yes	C
PsychJava [23]	Linux Mac Microsoft Windows	Free Software	No	Yes	Java
Psychtoolbox for MATLAB [24]	Linux Mac Microsoft Windows	Free Software	No	Yes	MATLAB
PyEPL [25]	Linux Mac	Free Software	No	Yes	Python
QRTEngine [26]	Web-based	Proprietary Software	Yes	Yes	JavaScript
SoPHIE [27]	Web-based	Free Software	Yes	Yes	PHP
SPIC Software [28]	Microsoft Windows	Free Software	Yes	Yes	No
Superlab [29]	Mac Microsoft Windows	Proprietary Software	Yes	Yes	No
Tatool Java [30]	Linux Mac Microsoft Windows	Free Software	Yes	Yes	Java}
Tatool Web [31]	Web-based	Free Software	Yes	Yes	JavaScript
Testable [32]	Web-based	Free Software	Yes	Yes	JavaScript
Tscope [33]	Linux Mac Microsoft Windows	Free Software	No	No	C/C++
Vision egg [34]	Linux Mac Microsoft Windows	Free Software	No	Yes	Python
Visual DMDX [35] is a GUI to DMDX	Microsoft Windows Web-based	Free Software	Yes	Yes	Open-source software
Webexp2 [36]	Web-based	Free Software	Yes	Yes	Java
WEXTOR [37]	Web-based	Free Software	Yes	N/A	HTML
z-Tree [38]	Microsoft Windows	Proprietary Software	Yes	Yes	Unknown

External links

• Online Encyclopedia of Psychology software resources
• Software for Visual Psychophysics

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