Abstract
Pygame is a Python wrapper for the popular SDL multimedia library. It is suitable for tasks involving 2D graphics, sound, keyboard, etc. Pygame is not designed to build psychological experiments, but it offers a lightweight solution appealing to some researchers. This chapter will give a brief overview of the various modules of Pygame and use the essential features of Pygame to create a functioning script for the Posner cueing task.
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For an overview of Pygame, see https://www.pygame.org/docs/tut/PygameIntro.html.
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Wang, Z. (2021). Building Experiments with Pygame. In: Eye-Tracking with Python and Pylink. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82635-2_3
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