OpenSesame

OpenSesame

OpenSesame is a tool to create experiments for psychology, neuroscience, and experimental economics.

Copyright, 2010-2016, Sebastiaan Mathôt and contributors.

http://osdoc.cogsci.nl/

Features

• A comprehensive graphical user interface–flexible and easy-to-use
• Support for Python scripting–add the power of Python to your experiment
• Support for external devices–use your eye tracker, button box, EEG equipment, etc.
• Free and open source–released under the GPL3
• Crossplatform–runs on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and Android (runtime only)

Branches

Each major version of OpenSesame lives in its own branch. The master branch contains the latest stable version.

• gibson - 2.8
• heisenberg - 2.9
• ising - 3.0
• james - 3.1

About

OpenSesame is a graphical experiment builder. OpenSesame provides an easy to use, point-and-click interface for creating psychological/ neuroscientific experiments.

Citation

Mathôt, S., Schreij, D., & Theeuwes, J. (2012). OpenSesame: An open-source, graphical experiment builder for the social sciences. Behavior Research Methods, 44(2), 314-324. doi:10.3758/s13428-011-0168-7

Contribute

If you wish to contribute to OpenSesame (and you are welcome to!), please visit:

• http://osdoc.cogsci.nl/3.1/dev/howtocontribute/

License

OpenSesame is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License 3. The full license should be included in the file COPYING, or can be obtained from:

• http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt

OpenSesame contains works of others. For the full license information, please refer to debian/copyright.

Documentation

Installation instructions and documentation are available on the documentation website …

• http://osdoc.cogsci.nl/

… which is itself also hosted on GitHub:

• https://github.com/smathot/osdoc