This is a set of functions designed for assisting with stimulus creation and eye-movement (EM) data analysis of single/multi-line text reading experiments.
The package contains of three modules each involving a set of functions:
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gen: functions in this module help to generate bitmaps of single/multi-line texts for reading, including txt/csv files specifying word-wise regions of interest, and visualize saccades, fixations, and ime-stamped EM data on bitmaps;
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ext: functions in this module aim to extract saccades and fixations detected by eye trackers (SRR eyelink devices) during reading and classifying them into different text lines (module);
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cal: functions in this module can calculate regional summaries of widely-adopted EM measures used in reading research (module).
From a shell prompt try:
> pip install git+https://github.com/gtojty/pyemread.git
OR, you can fork the source tree from github to your machine and then, from within the top level of the source tree do:
> python setup.py install
Simply use:
import pyemread as pr
Then, you can call all functions in the package using the namespace py, e.g., py.gen.FUNCTION.
OR, you can import specific module by typing:
from pyemread import gen
Then, you can call functions in that particular module using the namespace gen, e.g., gen.FUNCTION.