pychoacoustics 0.5.17 documentation

Author:Samuele Carcagno <sam.carcagno@gmail.com>

pychoacoustics version 0.5.17, last updated Mar 24, 2023

Copyright ©2012–2015 Samuele Carcagno <sam.carcagno@gmail.com>. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License”.

Disclaimer: This document comes with NO WARRANTY whatsoever of being correct in any of its parts. This document is work in progress.

Contents:

• What is pychoacoustics?
• Installation
  • Installation on Linux
    • Installation on Debian
    • Installation on Ubuntu LTS Releases
    • Installation on Windows and MacOS
    • Installation from source
    • “Manual” Installation from Source
• Graphical User Interface
  • Quickstart
  • The Control Window
    • General Widgets (left panel)
    • Additional Widgets (left panel)
    • General Widgets (right panel)
    • Paradigm Widgets
    • 1-Pair Same/Different Paradigm Widgets
    • Constant 1-Interval 2-Alternatives Paradigm Widgets
    • Constant m-Intervals n-Alternatives Paradigm Widgets
    • Multiple Constants ABX Paradigm Widgets
    • Multiple Constants 1-Interval 2-Alternatives Paradigm Widgets
    • Multiple Constants m-Intervals n-Alternatives Paradigm Widgets
    • Odd One Out Paradigm Widgets
    • PEST Paradigm Widgets
    • PSI Paradigm Widgets
    • Transformed Up-Down Paradigm Widgets
    • Transformed Up-Down Interleaved Paradigm Widgets
    • UML Paradigm Widgets
    • Weighted Up-Down Paradigm Widgets
    • Weighted Up-Down Interleaved Paradigm Widgets
    • The Menu Bar
    • The File Menu
    • The Edit Menu
    • The Tools Menu
    • The Help Menu
    • The “what’s this?” Button.
  • Process Results Dialog
  • Edit Preferences Dialog
    • General
    • Sound
    • Response Box
    • Notifications
    • EEG
  • Edit Phones Dialog
    • Calibrating with an SPL meter
    • Calibrating with a voltmeter
  • Edit Experimenters Dialog
  • The Response Box
• Command Line User Interface
• Paradigms
  • Available Paradigms
    • Transformed Up-Down
    • Transformed Up-Down Interleaved
    • Weighted Up-Down
    • Weighted Up-Down Interleaved
    • Constant m-Intervals n-Alternatives
    • Constant 1-Interval 2-Alternatives
    • Constant 1-Pair Same/Different
    • Multiple Constants 1-Pair Same/Different
    • Multiple Constants ABX
    • Odd One Out
    • PEST
    • PSI
    • UML
• Result Files
  • Tabular Results Files
  • Plain-Text Result Files
  • Result Files by Paradigm
    • Transformed Up-Down and Weighted Up-Down
    • Transformed Up-Down and Weighted Up-Down Interleaved Result Files
    • UML and PSI Result Files
    • PEST Result Files
    • Constant m-Intervals n-Alternatives Result Files
    • Multiple Constants m-Intervals n-Alternatives Result Files
    • Constant 1-Intervals 2-Alternatives Result Files
    • Multiple Constants 1-Intervals 2-Alternatives Result Files
    • Constant 1-Pair Same/Different Result Files
    • Multiple Constants 1-Pair Same-Different Result Files
    • Multiple Constants ABX Result Files
    • Multiple Constants Odd One Out Result Files
    • Multiple Constants Sound Comparison Result Files
  • Log Results Files
• Default Experiments
  • Audiogram
  • Demo Audiogram Multiple Frequencies
  • Demo Frequency Discrimination
  • Demo Signal Detection
  • Dummy Adaptive
  • F0DL
  • Level Discrimination
  • WAV ABX
  • WAV Comparison
  • WAV Same/Different
• The pychoacoustics Engine
  • Sound Output
    • Sound Output on Linux
    • Sound Output on Windows
    • Sound Output on macOS
    • Sound Output on FreeBSD
  • Parameters Files
  • Block Presentation Position
  • Displaying Task Instructions
  • OS Commands
  • Preferences Settings
  • Response Mode
• Writing your own Experiments
  • First Steps
    • Anatomy of a pychoacoustics experiment file
  • Writing a “Constant 1-Interval 2-Alternatives” Paradigm Experiment
  • Writing an experiment for the Transformed Up-Down Interleaved, Weighted Up-Down Interleaved, and Multiple Constants m-Intervals n-Alternatives Paradigms
    • Writing a matching experiment using interleaved adaptive tracks
  • Writing a “Constant 1-Pair Same/Different” Paradigm Experiment
  • Writing an “Odd One Out” Paradigm Experiment
  • The Experiment “opts”
  • The Play Sound Functions
  • Simulations
• Troubleshooting
  • The computer crashed in the middle of an experimental session
• sndlib
• sndlib – Sound Synthesis Library
• pysdt
• pysdt – Signal Detection Theory Measures
• References
• GNU Free Documentation License

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page