EXPE - AN EXPANDABLE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE FOR ONLINE PSYCHOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS

EXPE is a DOS program for the design and running of experiments that i nvolve the presentation of audio or visual stimuli and the collection of on-line or off-line behavioral responses. Its flexibility also make s it a useful tool for the rapid design of protocols for testing neuro psychological patients. EXPE provides a powerful scripting language th at allows the user to specify all the components of an experiment in a human readable file. Subjects' responses are saved in a user-specifie d format as well as in readable AscII files. The user can easily add n ew commands to the language: All the instructions are calls to functio ns written in independent Borland Pascal units. Thus, users can link t heir own Pascal procedures to EXPE to meet virtually any special need. This makes it possible, for example, to adapt EXPE to new hardware, s uch as new sound or video boards.