Setting up a computer to run behavioral experiments

This repo contains information and instructions for running cognitive psychology experiments on macOS, Windows, and Linux computers.

Download this repo

To use this repo, download the .zip file from here: https://github.com/lupyanlab/lab-computer/archive/master.zip

Clone this repo

If you are familiar with git you can clone the repo. That way you can stay up to date with the latest changes.

git clone https://github.com/lupyanlab/lab-computer.git

For detailed installation instructions and troubleshooting, see the wiki for this repo here: https://github.com/lupyanlab/lab-computer/wiki

What can I do once I have this repo?

cd ~/lab-computer  # wherever the repo is unzipped or cloned

# If you have `conda` installed,
# install the lab environment
conda create -f anaconda-environments/psychopy-environment-macos.yml

# Activate the lab environment named "psychopy"
source activate psychopy

# Test psychopy
cd psychopy-tests/

# List available tests
ls test_*.py

# Run tests
python test_psychopy.py
python test_psychopy_sound.py