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https://github.com/open-cogsci/OpenSesame

Graphical experiment builder for the social sciences
https://github.com/open-cogsci/OpenSesame

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# OpenSesame



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



Copyright, 2010-2024, Sebastiaan Mathôt and contributors.



[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/smathot/OpenSesame.svg?branch=ising)](https://travis-ci.org/smathot/OpenSesame)



## About



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



## Features



- A user-friendly interface — a modern, professional, and easy-to-use graphical interface

- Online experiments — run your experiment in a browser with OSWeb

- Python — add the power of Python to your experiment

- JavaScript — add the power of JavaScript to your experiment

- Use your devices — use your eye tracker, button box, EEG equipment, and more.

- Free — released under the GPL3

- Crossplatform — Windows, Mac OS, and Linux



## Related repositories



OpenSesame relies on a number repositories that are all hosted by the [Cogsci.nl](https://github.com/open-cogsci/) organization on GitHub. The most important of these are:



- [opensesame](https://github.com/open-cogsci/opensesame) contains core OpenSesame functionality

- [rapunzel](https://github.com/open-cogsci/rapunzel) is a set of extensions that turn OpenSesame into a code editor

- [osweb](https://github.com/open-cogsci/osweb) implements OSWeb, the online OpenSesame runtime

- [opensesame-extension-osweb](https://github.com/open-cogsci/opensesame-extension-osweb) embeds OSWeb into the OpenSesame user interface

- [pyqode.core](https://github.com/open-cogsci/pyqode.core) implements generic code-editor widgets

- [pyqode.python](https://github.com/open-cogsci/pyqode.python) implements Python-specific code-editor widgets

- [datamatrix](https://github.com/open-cogsci/python-datamatrix) implements a tabular data structure that is used by the `loop` item

- [qdatamatrix](https://github.com/open-cogsci/python-qdatamatrix) implements a Qt widget for editing datamatrix objects

- [pseudorandom](https://github.com/open-cogsci/python-pseudorandom) implements pseudorandomization/ randomization constraints



## Branches



Each major version of OpenSesame lives in its own branch. The default branch is currently `milgram`.



- `gibson` - 2.8

- `heisenberg` - 2.9

- `ising` - 3.0

- `james` - 3.1

- `koffka` - 3.2

- `loewenfeld` - 3.3

- `milgram` - 4.0



## Citations



- 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](https://doi.org/doi:10.3758/s13428-011-0168-7)

- Mathôt, S., & March, J. (2022). Conducting linguistic experiments online with OpenSesame and OSWeb. *Language Learning*. [doi:10.1111/lang.12509](https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12509)



## 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:



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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 ...



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... which is itself also hosted on GitHub:



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