Visuomotor Serial Targeting Task (VSTT)

Visuomotor Serial Targetting Task (VSTT) is an open source Python GUI tool for designing, running and analyzing motor skill acquisition experiments.

Getting started

• Installation
  • Windows with standalone Psychopy (recommended)
  • Pip install
• Creating a new experiment
  • Metadata
  • Display Options
  • Trial Conditions
• Running an experiment
  • Splash screen
  • Trials
  • Results
• Displaying results
  • Display options
  • Results
• Sharing experiments

Reference information

• Trial Conditions
• Statistics
  • Time
  • Distance
  • Area
  • Velocity
  • Acceleration
  • Spatial Error
  • Statistics at peak velocity
• Framerates and timestamps
  • Introduction
  • How an experiment works
  • Dropped frames
• File formats
  • psydat
  • Excel
  • json
• Changelog
  • [1.6.0] - 2025-09-04
  • [1.5.0] - 2024-11-20
  • [1.4.0] - 2023-12-08
  • [1.3.1] - 2023-11-06
  • [1.3.0] - 2023-09-29
  • [1.2.0] - 2023-07-07
  • [1.1.0] - 2023-06-27
  • [1.0.0] - 2023-06-26

Example jupyter notebooks

• Analysing your results
  • Import
  • Conditions
  • Results
  • Plot statistics
• Working directly with psydat files
  • Import
  • Contents
  • Conditions
  • Results
  • Plot of results for each trial
  • Plot of all trials combined for each condition
  • Plot of mouse movements vs time
• Calculate the area of the enclosed geometric object with psydat file
  • Import
  • Plot of results for each trial
  • Plot of area calculation results for each trial
  • Special cases
• Show some statistics of the enclosed geometric object with psydat file
  • Import
  • Plot of results for each trial
  • Plot of results for each target
  • Plot velocity for each trial
  • apply a Savitzky-Golay filter example
  • apply filter to the mouse positions
  • apply filter to the mouse position first, then plot the velocity
  • apply filter to the velocity plot to make it smoother

Developer documentation

• Developer installation
  • Developer install
  • Pre-requisites
• Forwards Compatibility
  • Adding new features
  • Unknown or missing fields
  • Forwards compatibility
  • Backwards compatibility