A1: Programming Bricolage for Psychophysicists: Essential Tools and Best Practices for Efficient Stimulus Presentation and Data Analysis

A1: Programming Bricolage for Psychophysicists: Essential Tools and Best Practices for Efficient Stimulus Presentation and Data Analysis T Zito¹, M Hanke²
¹Imperial College London, Germany ²University of Magdeburg, Germany
This tutorial provides an opportunity to fill a few gaps in the typical training of a psychophysicist. It will help to learn programming scripts for stimulus presentation and data analysis efficiently -- exploiting a computer instead of fighting it. We will demonstrate best practices and easy development tools that make coding faster and more robust, as well as the result more functional and reusable for the next experiment and the next student. We expect our audience to be familiar with at least one programming language or environment (Python, Matlab, Labview, IDL, Mathematica, C, Java, to just name a few) and be willing to change their attitude towards software development.

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