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OpenSesame 3.0.0 will bring amazing new features! Curious? Take it for a test spin, and help us iron out the kinks.

Video tutorials

Creating a cat-faces experiment

The video below introduces the basic functionality of OpenSesame by providing a step-by-step walk-through for creating a ‘cat-faces’ experiment. In this experiment, the participant’s task is to judge whether a (picture of a) cat is male or female. Quite tricky (the task, that is, creating the experiment is easy), but apparently people can do it after some training.

  • Duration: 43 minutes
  • OpenSesame version: 0.27.2
Video 1. Video tutorial by Chris Longmore.

Implementing counterbalancing

The video below shows how you can implement counterbalancing in OpenSesame.

  • Duration: 26 minutes
  • OpenSesame version: 0.27.2
Video 2. Video tutorial by Chris Longmore.

Creating an affordances/ orientation experiment

The video below shows how to create a typical ‘affordances/ orientation effect;-type experiment in OpenSesame in slightly over 5 minutes.

  • Duration: 8 minutes
  • OpenSesame version: 0.23
Video 3. Creating an affordances/ orientation experiment.