Welcome to the PsyScope Home Page. PsyScope is an interactive graphic system for experimental design and control on the Macintosh. PsyScope development has ceased and the program is not updated for new versions of the operating system. However, it appears to be largely compatible with all Mac systems from OS7 to OS9 and virtually all versions of Macintosh hardware. There is no user support, but users can exchange insights over the info-psyscope@psyscope.psy.cmu.edu mailing list.

Despite these problems, until E-Prime for the Macintosh becomes available, PsyScope remains as possibly the best way to build experiments on the Macintosh.

General Information

PsyScope 1.2.5 is available free and unsupported to those who might find it useful. We do not take any responsibility whatsoever for any problems that you have related to the use of PsyScope. PsyScope was designed and developed by (alphabetically):

• Jonathan Cohen
• Matthew Flatt
• Brian MacWhinney
• Jefferson Provost

The developers kindly request that the following citation be referenced in any manuscripts that report results based on the use of PsyScope:

Cohen J.D., MacWhinney B., Flatt M., and Provost J. (1993). PsyScope: A new graphic interactive environment for designing psychology experiments. Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 25(2), 257-271.

Resources

• PsyScope Files: program and manual
• PsyScope Scripts
• PsyScope Utilities: timing testers, PsyDat, info-psyscope archive, extensions
• PsyScope Button Box Files: order information, loader, documentation, and code
• PSYx Extension Kit: programmer's tools for building PsyScope extensions.
• Hamilton PsyScope Materials, Jon Vaughan and Penny L. Yee at Hamilton have provided access to additional PsyScope tutorial materials and the PsySquash program

If you are connecting from Europe, you may find it faster to transfer through the PsyScope Mirror in Belgium at the University of Antwerp, provided through the courtesy of Steven Gillis.

Users interested in exchanging ideas and issues regarding PsyScope can subscribe to info-psyscope@psyscope.psy.cmu.edu by just sending a message to that address with the word "subscribe" in the subject field.