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Published in final edited form as: J Neurosci Methods. 2007 Jan 23;162(1-2):8–13. doi: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2006.11.017

Table 1.

A summary table of features for several frequently used software packages

	PsychoPy	Vision Egg	Psychtoolbox	Presentation
Free	✓ ✓	✓ ✓	✓ (requires Matlab)	x
Full source code	✓ ✓	✓ ✓	✓ (none for Matlab)	x
Platform independent	✓ ✓	✓ ✓	✓ ✓	x
Usability	✓ ✓	✓	✓ ✓	✓ ✓
Automated Calibration	✓ ✓ ✓	x	✓	x
Stimuli in realtime	✓ ✓	✓ ✓	✓	x
Hardware interfaces	✓ ✓	✓ ✓	✓ ✓	✓ ✓
Community size	✓ ^†	✓ ✓	✓ ✓ ✓	✓ ✓

^†

It should be noted that, although the community for PsychoPy itself is relatively small, there is a very large community using Python.

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