Appendix A — PsychoPy resources
A.1 Making sense of PsychoPy spatial units
This PsychoPy spatial units app interactively visualises different types of PsychoPy units.
There is also a more advanced version of the app that also covers visual angles. This is accompanied by a blog post on visual angles.
A.2 Making sense of PsychoPy errors and warnings
This blog post covers some of the most frequent PsychoPy errors and warnings (this partially overlaps with the content of the next appendix on resolving PsychoPy issues).
A.3 Other resources
The following resources are good options for learning more about PsychoPy:
- PsychoPy documentation.
- PsychoPy forum.
- Jon, Becca and Michael’s excellent PsychoPy book: Peirce, J., Hirst, R. & MacAskill, M. (2022). Building experiments in PsychoPy (2nd ed.). Sage Publications.
- Detailed PsychoPy/Pavlovia guide by Wakefield Morys-Carter that also includes a section on error messages.
In addition, you can of course find out more about PsychoPy by having a chat with an AI, asking Google or searching YouTube.