What is E-Prime?
E-Prime is a comprehensive software package (Windows-only) for behavioural research. E-Prime allows you to construct experiments using a graphical interface.

What is Inquisit?
Inquisit is a software package (Windows and Mac) that can be used to design and administer a range of cognitive, social, neurophysiological, and psychological experiments. Inquisit comes with an extensive library of psychological testing paradigms that can be used or customised for your purpose. In addition, Inquisit allows users to publish experiments online and collect data using a browser version of the experiment.

What is Presentation?
Presentation is a stimulus delivery and experiment control program (Windows-only) for neuroscience. It delivers auditory, visual and multimodal stimuli with millisecond temporal precision. Presentation support registration for almost any behavioral, psychological or physiological experiment using reaction time measures, eye movements, EEG, fMRI, MEG, and more. There's a Help Guide available which can help you with all your questions regarding Presentation.

What is OpenSesame?
OpenSesame is a free, Python-based program (Windows and Mac) that allows users to create experiments using a user-friendly visual interface. OpenSesame works on most platforms and is compatible with a range of experimental hardware (eye-trackers, EEG equipment, etc.). The Tech Support Desk only provides very limited support for OpenSesame. However, the official OpenSesame website provides a range of tutorials and an active support forum.

What is Gorilla?

Gorillais a web-based surveying tool equipped with an intuitive graphical user interface which allows users to build behavioural experiments and collect behavioural data with accurate reaction times. They offer extensive documentation, a wide range of pre-built classical experiments and professional support.

What is Qualtrics?

Qualtrics is a web-based surveying tool that allows users to build questionnaires and collect behavioural responses.

What is LimeSurvey?

LimeSurvey is a web-based survey application that allows users to develop and publish online surveys, collect responses, create statistics, and export the resulting data to other applications. You can use your Solis credentials to Log on to LimeSurvey. If it is your first time logging in, a new account will be instantly created for you and you can start right away.

What is BrainVision Analyzer?

BrainVision Analyzer (BVA) is a software package (Windows-only) designed to process and analyse EEG data. The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences has access to a limited number of concurrent use licences.

What is Matlab?
MATLAB (matrix laboratory) is a numerical computing environment and proprietary programming language developed by Mathworks (Windows and Mac). In addition to the base software, there is a wide range of toolbox that allow Matlab to be used for different purposes. The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences has access to Matlab licenses. Installation and licensing of Matlab depends on the system you are working on.

What is R-Studio?
R is a programming language and free software environment for statistical computing and graphics (Windows and Mac). The R language is widely used among statisticians and data miners for developing statistical software and data analysis. As a result there are many available packages that support a wide range of statistical analysis. R is often combined with R-studio, an integrated development environment (IDE), to increase the ease of use.

What is NVivo?
NVivo is a qualitative data analysis (QDA) computer software package (Windows and Mac) produced by QSR International. It has been designed for qualitative researchers working within very rich text-based and/or multimedia information, where deep levels of analysis on small or large volumes of data are required. NVivo is intended to help users organize and analyze non-numerical or unstructured data.

What is CMA?
Comprehesive meta-analysis (CMA) is a software package (Windows-Only) specifically designed for meta-analysis. The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Science has one license.

What is Noldus FaceReader?
Noldus FaceReader is a software package (Windows-only) for analysing facial expressions. It can automatically analyses a range of facial expressions such as happy, sad, angry, surprised, scared, disgusted, neutral, contempt, boredom, interest, and confusion. It also calculates gaze direction, head orientation, and person characteristics. The software immediately analyzes your data (live, video, or still images), saving valuable time. In addition, expressions can be characterised using the the circumplex model of affect, describing the distribution of emotions in a 2D circular space containing arousal and valence dimensions.

What is Amberscript?
Amberscript is an user friendly transcription tool which can handle various languages. With this tool you can automatically convert audio- and video files into text. Furthermore, the service now complies with the privacy and information security requirements of our university, so it is safe to use when you work with privacy sensitive data. Amberscript is managed by ITS and questions may be directed to them.

What is Kaldi?
Kaldi is a transcription tool which can handle English or Dutch. We do not officially support this tool and recommend Amberscript.

What is SPSS?
IBM SPSS Statistics is a software package (Windows and Mac) that offers a wide range of frequentist statistical analyses. SPSS can be operated using a graphic user interface or by programming analyses in the command syntax language. The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences has access to unlimited SPSS licenses. Installation and licensing of SPSS depends on the system you are working on.

What is JASP?
Just Another Statistics Programme (JASP) is a free opensource analysis package (Windows and Mac) that supports both Frequentist and Bayesian versions of common statistical analyses.

What is Stata?
Stata is a general-purpose statistical software package created in 1985 by StataCorp. Stata's capabilities include data management, statistical analysis, graphics, simulations, regression, and custom programming. It also has a system to disseminate user-written programs that lets it grow continuously. Stata is a complete, integrated statistical software package that provides everything you need for data analysis, data management, and graphics. We provide network access to Stata.

What is Mplus?
Mplus is a statistical modeling program (Windows and Mac) that provides researchers with a flexible tool to analyze their data. Mplus allows the analysis of both cross-sectional and longitudinal data, single-level and multilevel data, data that come from different populations with either observed or unobserved heterogeneity, and data that contain missing values. Analyses can be carried out for observed variables that are continuous, censored, binary, ordered categorical (ordinal), unordered categorical (nominal), counts, or combinations of these variable types. In addition, Mplus has extensive capabilities for Monte Carlo simulation studies, where data can be generated and analyzed according to any of the models included in the program.

What is MLwiN?
MLwiN is a statistical software package (Windows-only) for fitting multilevel models. It uses both maximum likelihood estimation and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. MLwiN is based on an earlier package, MLn, but with a graphical user interface (as well as other additional features).

What is HLM?
HLM is a statistical software package (Windows-only) designed to estimate hierarchical linear models. Hierarchical linear models, also called multilevel, random-effects, or mixed models, are appropriate for data with a nested structure. HLM is capable of estimating several types of parameters. Typical output includes estimates of fixed effects (regression coefficients) at the individual and grouping levels, as well as estimates of variance components describing the random coefficients. Additionally, HLM produces a residual file you can use for testing model assumptions and finding empirical Bayes estimates for the random level-1 coefficients. HLM can also estimate hierarchical generalized linear models for binary, ordered, categorical, and count-dependent variables.

What is Microsoft Teams?
Microsoft Teams (in short, Teams) provides a useful tool to communicate with colleagues, students, and also participants. General information about working with Teams can be found here (installation and basic features) and here (Teams for education).

What is Microsoft Office?
Microsoft Office 365 is a standard office package that consist of Word, Powerpoint, Excel and Outlook.

What is Adobe Creative Suite?
Adobe Creative Software is a set of applications and services from Adobe Systems that gives subscribers access to a collection of software used for graphic design, video editing, web development, photography, along with a set of mobile applications and also some optional cloud services.