1st Edition

Programming Behavioral Experiments with MATLAB and Psychtoolbox 9 Simple Steps for Students and Researchers

By Erman Misirlisoy Copyright 2017
80 Pages
by Routledge

80 Pages
by Routledge

80 Pages
by Routledge

Human behavior is fascinating so it’s no surprise that psychologists and neuroscientists spend their lives designing rigorous experiments to understand it. MATLAB is one of the most widely used pieces of software for designing and running behavioral experiments, and it opens up a world of quick and flexible experiment programming. This book offers a step-by-step guide to using MATLAB with... Read more

List of figures. Acknowledgements.  Introduction  1. Step 0: Preliminary notes  2. Step 1: Initialisation  3. Step 2: Setting parameters and opening up variables to store experimental conditions and data  4. Step 3: Executing for loops to iterate through trials  5. Step 4: Using if statements to define trials and present stimuli  6. Step 5: Presenting stimuli and recording responses  7. Step 6: Saving data  8. Step 7: Debugging, optimisation and functions  9. Step 8: Testing and ‘sanity checks’ on data  10. Step 9: The basics of data analysis  11. Congratulations!  Index

Biography

Erman Misirlisoy got his PhD in cognitive neuroscience from University College London. He went on to found a scientific consulting company and joined the company Peak in 2015 to help develop effective cognitive training interventions.