Recording Keyboard Input

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1

What I am trying to do is create a task where participants will need to type in a word they see in psychopy. This is easily done, however, what I need is to record each key they input, and the timing of each key when they input it. This I want recorded to a excel file like any other data recording.

2

I’m working on something like that at the moment for a student.

For a simple word you could use:

Begin Routine

msg = ''

Each Frame

if key_resp.keys:
     if len(key_resp.keys[-1]) == 1:
          msg += key_resp.keys[-1]
     elif 'return' in key_resp.keys:
          continueRoutine = False

Try this with a text component showing $msg every frame and a keyboard component that doesn’t end the routine saving all keys.

3

Thank you. This works, however, in the excel spreadsheet, there is no data for each individual key and when it was pressed, just button press as a whole. Is this possible to have data for each key, of the time each one was pressed?

4

Is your keyboard response saving all keys? You should see a list of keys pressed and times pressed in the data file.

5

I have checked the log rather than the excel file, and it is saving all the keys pressed in there. I am guessing this is correct and I was just looking at the wrong data file.