Institute for Language Sciences Labs

Zep

The Zep programming language.

How to properly run a ZEP experiment in the lab

This how-to guides you through a test session using ZEP at the ILS Labs. It assumes you have completely prepared your experiment – including the replacement of the example stimuli with your own. Step 1 and 2 should only be done when running your experiment for the first time. Step 3 to 7 should be repeated…

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Experiment Builder on the EyeLink

Introduction SR Research Experiment Builder is a program that can be used to make an experiment for our EyeLink 1000 eye tracker. We have one license and the software is installed on ET1; however, we do not generally use it, and it is recommended that you use our own software, ZEP, instead; use of ZEP…

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How to work with CSV files

CSV stands for ‘comma separated values’. A CSV file is usually a text file with the extension ‘.csv’ and is used because it is useful to pass a lot of structured data to a computer program, while also being relatively easy to read for humans. How CSV files work A CSV file always contains a…

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ZEP Tutorial for Windows

Tutorial ZEP – Adapt an existing template experiment (February 2020) In this tutorial, you will create a ZEP experiment that runs a grammaticality judgment task. This document will guide you to do this step by step, working from an existing template experiment. The template experiment that we will use as the base is a visual…

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ZEP Tutorial for Linux

Tutorial ZEP – Adapt an existing template experiment (in K.06 under Linux) In this tutorial, you will create a ZEP experiment that runs a grammaticality judgment task. This document will guide you to do this step by step, working from an existing template experiment. The template experiment that we will use as the base is…

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