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My research group has gone pure python for coding experiments; we've been burned too many times by glitches and implicit behaviour in boxed experiment-building software to bother trusting it. Moving from a point-and-click experiment design interface to pure code does have a large learning curve, and you want to be careful to model your own code on well ...
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FingerFriendlySoft has created an app for all iOS devices (that is, iPod touch, iPhone and iPad) that is called N-back Suite. This is, as the name suggests, an app which lets you take the n-back test.
Included are both the single and the dual n-back test and you can chose different amounts of n (from 1 to 10), five different speeds, and different type of ...
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Programs/packages for EEG analysis
There are decent MatLab toolboxes with good tutorials for for the analysis of EEG data. The EEGLAB toolbox (tutorial) can be operated by both GUI and command-line (and script). The fieldtrip toolbox (tutorial) is mainly operated by command line / script.
Of course there are also (commercial) software packages for EEG ...
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WebExp is a client/server based psychology/linguistics experiment creation/running system written in Java. It is freely available.
A subject types in the appropriate web address and they see the experiment pages that have been created; obviously you have to have access to a server on which the experiment software+configuration files are running. It ...
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I use the FieldTrip toolbox in Matlab to analyze my own modified auditory MMN experiment :) But I use MEG, so I don't have that many software options. The toolbox is very powerful but it has a steep learning curve and I would recommend it only if you already have both Matlab and EEG data analysis experience.
I don't analyze my data in the classical MMN way ...
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Have you tried:
connectomeviewer http://www.connectomeviewer.org/viewer
brainnetviewer http://www.nitrc.org/projects/bnv/ which is a toolbox for the SPM software package http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/spm/
Gephi http://gephi.org/
Trackvis http://trackvis.org/
Also Nico Dosenbach has some amazing picture of brain connectivity in this paper ...
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It sounds like you're looking for a platform on which to implement computerized adaptive tests (since subsequent questions are contingent on prior responses).
I found Concerto, which is based in R and MySQL, but allows some flexibility in presentation (it says it uses HTML directly, but you could probably couple it with another language).
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I would say there are no such tests/toolboxes, that would allow you to properly conduct any cognitive testing on iPhone, iPad or even using web-based applications. There are some games that attempt to do it, like the one suggested by @Speldosa, but nothing really serious.
At the moment there seem to be no way to control and record different variables (like ...
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OpenSesame is a recent entry that is cross-platform and seems to promote GUI-based design while allowing customization via Python scripting.
It can be found at their website (link above). A recent article has references and summarizes 16 other tools as well (including some reported in the other stackexchange responses). I found great video tutorials and ...
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Great question. There are two software packages that might be interesting to you:
I have tried to run EPrime in a virtual machine on my Mac and it was a catastrophe. As I found out it used to work, but some of the later updates made it impossible. In the process of figuring this out, I came across PsyScope X. It is an actively developed open source ...
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I think ProjectImplicit will be what you want. It is also Java based and runs fully in the browser. It is by the Harvard guys that did run the IAT via web and collected ten thousand datasets this way.
See here for their services (I am not sure if it is free but seems so at least for non-commerical research). If you like it and use it perhaps you can post ...
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Here is a comprehensive list of Computational Neuroscience Software
My opinion below comes form the perspective of nonlinear dynamics (using differential equations to model ion currents in neurons). So more the math/physics/electrical engineering approach to Computational Neuroscience (not so much the Computer Science or Psychology approach):
Personally, ...
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The best review of experience sampling tools I've found is here.
Specifically, to answer you question, check out "MyExperience". To quote the website:
MyExperience is a BSD-licensed open source mobile data collection tool
developed for Windows Mobile devices (including PDAs and mobile
phones) using .NET CF 2 and Microsoft SQL Compact Edition.
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Another option is to program in C/C++ using the Tscope library.
If you're not experienced with programming, it's a bit tricky at first, but I'd say it pays off in the end.
Tscope is a C/C++ experiment programming library for cognitive
scientists. It is distributed under the Gnu Public License, and is
intended to run on Windows 2000 and XP platforms. ...
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I use Adobe Flash. My colleague Yana Weinstein has written a book on Flash Programming for the Social & Behavioral Sciences that should be out next month. I'm a contributor and helped write some of it! Check it out by clicking here.
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Limesurvey is worth checking out (more suitable for questionnaire style tasks, but very flexible and with some coding it should be possible to, eg. record RTs)
Wextor could be another possibility - it allows building more complicated designs, has not been developed for a bit, though...
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You should consider SuperLab. It runs on Mac and Windows.
It uses a point-and-click user interface that makes it really easy to setup experiments. Even "programming" contingencies are done via point-and-click.
Disclaimer: I wrote the original version of SuperLab and I work at Cedrus, its developer.
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@Jeromy Anglim: I'm actually creating a serial response time task (a widely used learning task) for the iPad now. We hope to get it up in the appstore soon but I'm using it along with a few others for my master's thesis. We're almost done putting the finishing touches on the task and hope to post a youtube video soon of the task. We're not intending to make ...
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You'll want to look into PsychToolbox 3, a very capable Matlab/Octave toolbox intended for running high-precision behavioral psychology experiments. If you don't have access to Matlab, you can use Octave (which is available for Windows 7; see link) to run your experiments.
The toolbox itself is a platform for creating interactive experiments, ranging from ...
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If you want to deliver visual stimuli with accurate timing, don't use this method as the general consensus is that flat screen monitors can not yet be fully trusted for timing (though tests are being done, and some monitors may be ok, the jury is very much out on this one). For example, if you want a stimulus up for, say 500ms, or some smaller number like ...
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WebExp is a free framework for developing web-based experiments, and the source code is freely available. The client side is a Java applet, so subjects must have Java installed on their computers. Perhaps this causes fewer drop-outs than having to install the executable generated by Inquisit Web. This paper discusses the timing accuracy of WebExp-based ...
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Answering to my own question: Avogadro is a molecule editor, but for visualization purposes it does not check the validity of the molecule, thus permitting its usage in the creation of publication-quality 3D ball-and-stick models of any subject matter, such as brain connectivity networks. Avogadro reads several molecule file formats, for example .cml is an ...
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One option is to use Inquisit Web Edition.
Here is an example script with a lexical decision task.
Unfortunately, it is not free and it requires installation of a plug-in.
Version 4 of Inquisit runs on OSX and Windows. Thus, it wont work in Linux or on phones, tablets, etc.
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I work mostly with MATLAB, and if necessary C/C++. Those are generic tools, but widely used in computational neuroscience. I often analyze and model spike trains in high time resolution, and there isn't a tool that is used universally yet. I have my own set of tools that I have developed in MATLAB. Also, many others in computational neuroscience publishes ...
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If I managed to understand, each participant may have a slightly different viewing experience, as long as it's constant through multiple sessions each participant has.
To achieve this, you may ask participants to sit an arm's reach from their monitor. Try to make the images span the same physical size (even though it's really hard to achieve ...
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2 sounds reasonable. The variability you introduce by sticking to pixels or display ratios seems like it outweighs the apparent unreliability of monitor size calculations.
Also, unlike TVs that scale the content to fit the size, most webpages do not scale -- so, when I drag a webpage from my laptop screen to my second (larger) monitor, the size stays ...
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As you mentioned, data visualization and visual stimulation in general, trigger a primitive brain response, which results in an easier comprehension and engagement/rejection process - a process more trivial than sensing and comprehending symbols. Thus, numerical information such as percentages, distributions, and relativistic data in general, immediately get ...
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For what it's worth, I did a lot of research and did not find a solution.
So I created my own using HTML, jQuery and a canvas. It's not pretty, but it does not require a lot of work because the functionality is simple: When you click on a node, display its edges and the associated weights.
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