Using PsychoPy

Date: January 7, 2025 5:04 PM

Tutorial

  1. Download psychopy from https://www.psychopy.org/download.html
  2. Open psychopy
    1. if immediately crashing, try searching for your hidden folders in /Users/yourusername and delete folders called .psychopy3 .psychopy2
  3. Open ‘coder’
  4. Load in your file
  5. press the green ‘run’ button

    1. if giving problems, try the following things:

    2. If on a mac, go to System Preferences → Security & Privacy → Privacy tab, then for ‘Accessibility’ and ‘Input Monitoring’, add Psychopy as an app who can access

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    1. Install brew install portaudio, brew install libsndfile, brew install portmidi, brew install liblo and then brew install —cask psychopy and then brew install pipx

      pipx install psychopy-sounddevice, pipx install psychopy-ptb, pipx install psychopy-pyo

      ended up also having to install git, gitpython, libsndfile, curl, pipx, and then trying to install psychopy from the command line instead of from the standalone since i was still getting dependency issues

    2. if needed to change preferences, go to builder and click the grey ‘gear’ icon to alter settings. cannot alter settings of already-built scripts via this— this is just how you alter stuff for building scripts.

If you’re having issues, try building it in a virtual environment with pyhton 3.11:

```python
brew install python@3.11
python3.11 -m venv ~/venvs/psychopy-env
brew link --overwrite python@3.11 --dry-run
brew link --overwrite python@3.11
source ~/venvs/psychopy-env/bin/activate
(psychopy-env) pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
(psychopy-env) pip install psychopy

```