Paradigm
Create Awesome Experiments: Paradigm presents movies, images, audio, text, self-paced reading trials and rating scales. Stimuli can be presented simultaneously or in serial, and their properties can be changed for each trial using Paradigm's "define per trial" features.
Everything You Need, Nothing You Don't: Paradigm's user-interface is minimal, focused and intuitive. You'll be able to build your experiments in just a few clicks without learning a complex scripting language or poring over an encyclopedia's worth of documentation.
Collect Better Data: Paradigm gives you millisecond accurate stimulus presentation "by default". You can log information about every aspect of your experiment, including responses, reaction times, stimulus onsets and onset errors. Your logged data are automatically exported to an Excel® spreadsheet.
Collect Responses with Paradigm
Click, Press or Speak: you can collect responses from a Mouse, Keyboard, Button Box, Joystick or Microphone. With Paradigm's built-in mouse selection, your subjects can select visual stimuli with a mouse pointer. We've verified Paradigm's reaction time accuracy with the Black Box Toolkit.
Universal Button Box: Paradigm supports button boxes from PST (E-Prime®), Cedrus (SuperLab®) and the "in house" button box used in your lab.
Voice Keys and Voice Samples: using any microphone, you can collect voice key reaction times and record voice samples. Each voice sample is saved as an individual sound file, simplifying the visual inspection of voice onsets.
Who is using Paradigm?
The following organizations (amongst others) already work with Paradigm:
CUNY - Graduate Center
National Taiwan University
Purdue University
The Sackler Institute - Cornell University
University of British Columbia (UBC)
University of Kansas
University of Montreal
UC - San Diego
University of Southern California (USC)
Simon Fraser University
Vanderbilt University
How Paradigm licenses work
We use USB keys (dongles) as licenses. We’ve found that this is an easy and flexible method. It lets you move Paradigm to multiple computers (without activation/deactivation), loan your license to colleagues or students and it won’t disappear if you reformat your hard drive. Our USB keys do not require a driver or any other additional software, you can attach them to any computer. For each license you purchase you’ll recieve one USB key.
Paradigm allows you to export your experiments as "stand-alone" executables that can be run on any computer without a license. "Stand-alone" experiments are ideal for distributing your experiment to colleagues or students, you can even make them available on your website.
Paradigm sample experiments instructional videos
For sample experiments and instructional videos, please look at the website of makers of the program
