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psychopy.visual - many visual stimuliΒΆ

Window to display all stimuli below.

Commonly used:

  • ImageStim to show images
  • TextStim to show text
  • TextBox rewrite of TextStim (faster/better but only monospace fonts)

Shapes (all special classes of ShapeStim):

  • ShapeStim to draw shapes with arbitrary numbers of vertices
  • Rect to show rectangles
  • Circle to show circles
  • Polygon to show polygons
  • Line to show a line

Images and patterns:

  • ImageStim to show images
  • SimpleImageStim to show images without bells and whistles
  • GratingStim to show gratings
  • RadialStim to show annulus, a rotating wedge, a checkerboard etc

Multiple stimuli:

  • ElementArrayStim to show many stimuli of the same type
  • DotStim to show and control movement of dots

Other stimuli:

  • MovieStim to show movies
  • RatingScale to collect ratings
  • CustomMouse to change the cursor in windows with GUI. OBS: will be deprecated soon

General purpose (applies to other stimuli):

  • BufferImageStim to make a faster-to-show “screenshot” of other stimuli
  • Aperture to restrict visibility area of other stimuli

See also Helper functions