Re: [pygame] Citing PyGame in papers

[Ryan Hope <rmh3093@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well I belong to a Cognitive Science lab and we do a lot of
computational models of human performance in a wide range of tasks. I
have a whole battery of tasks written in PyGame from basic
psychological paradigms to 1980's style vector based arcade games. I
have pygame versions of various visual search tasks, the n-back task,
the flanker task, go-nogo, the antisaccade task, multiple object
tracking tasks, SSVEP tasks. They are all capable of integrating with
out eye trackers and EEG.

On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Alec Bennett <wrybread@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Out of curiosity, what would be an example of an experiment you conduct that involves PyGame?
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> On Nov 8, 2011, at 1:13 PM, Ryan Hope <rmh3093@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> PyGame has increased my productivity as a research by an order of
>> magnitude. Experiment that used to take me weeks to code up in C/X11 I
>> can write in an hour or 2 using pygame and they are more portable.
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>> On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Florian Krause
>> <siebenhundertzehn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>> I create my experiments in PyGame so I figured I would cite it just
>>>>> like the people who create their experiments in software like E-Prime.
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>>>> Cool. Âby the way, I think it's really great that PyGame is used in
>>>> experiments, and is getting cited somewhere!
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>>> Actually, we created a Python package that was specifically made for
>>> this purpose, which is also heavily based on PyGame
>>> (http://expyriment.googlecode.com). In fact, PyGame is very suited for
>>> these kind of things, since it handles most important aspects
>>> regarding stimulus presentation and user input. If you think about it,
>>> at a certain level, experiments and video games are have a lot in
>>> common. And PyGame is a superb package for game programming in Python.
>>> So for most people who want to write experiments in Python, the first
>>> stop will always be PyGame.
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>>> Florian
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>> Ryan Hope, M.S.
>> CogWorks Lab
>> Department of Cognitive Science
>> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Ryan Hope, M.S.
CogWorks Lab
Department of Cognitive Science
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute