WebExp Experimental Software

Welcome to webexp.info - the home of WebExp, a unique system for conducting psychological experiments over the World Wide Web.

What's new?

What's it all about?

What am I supposed to do with it?

Demonstrations (please note that WebExp requires Java 1.5.0_11 or above)

The following experiments are not meant as realistic designs, but are merely there to demonstrate the functionality of WebExp: The following experiments use WebExp to implement some classical paradigms in cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics. These experiments ship with WebExp and can be adapted easily for your purposes:

For links to genuine psychological experiments, many of which use WebExp, please visit:




The development of WebExp was made possible by financial support from the Principal's e-Learning Fund of the University of Edinburgh and the Psychology Network of the Higher Education Academy. Further support was provided by a consulting contract with the Department of Psychology of the University of California at Santa Cruz.




WebExp Development Team
School of Informatics, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9AB, Scotland, UK
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