Re: Perceptual experiments

[Jan Wouters <Jan.Wouters@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tarun, 
I do not completely agree that you need to learn C++ to program 
psychophysics experiments. More than 10 years ago we spent a lot of 
time in developing a platform for psychophysical experiments without 
the need to have the background of a programming engineer. A lot of 
researchers without programming skills use it now (speech pathologist, 
audiologists, psychologists, orthopedagogics, ...).
This approach is described in 

?A flexible auditory research platform using acoustic or electric 
stimuli for adults and 	young children?
J. Laneau, B. Boets, M. Moonen, A. van Wieringen, J. Wouters
Journal of Neuroscience Methods 142 (2004) 131-136

and based on the concept in 

?A concept for a research tool for experiments with cochlear implant 
users?
L. Geurts and J. Wouters
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 108 (2000) 2949-2956

the software is free available (with some agreement)
You should not focus on writing software for running experiments, but 
all focus should go to the stimuli you would like to use (and then 
Matlab might be an excellent choice for preparing your stimuli)

Jan Wouters
ExpORL, Dept. Neurosciences
K.U.Leuven







Citeren Pablo Faundez Hoffmann <pfh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Hej Tarun,
> 
> I found myself with the same question at the beginning of my PhD two 
> 
> years ago. I don't have experience with any special software for  
> perceptual experiments. Well, since you mentioned you are completely 
> 
> new to this I assume you are at the starting point of your research, 
> 
> so, I would strongly recommend you to learn a programming language  
> (if you don't know one already) and program your experiments  
> yourself. I know it might look scaring at the beginning but certainly
>  
> pays off. The main advantage I see, is that there are no black boxes 
> 
> in your experiment chain, you can have complete control over it and 
> 
> adjust everything as you wish. If you focus on learning object- 
> oriented programming you will realize that you can easily reuse code 
> 
> for further experiments without spending so much time.
> 
> regards,
> 
> 
> Pablo Faundez Hoffmann
> Ph.D. Student
> Department of Acoustics
> Aalborg University
> Frederik Bajers Vej 7 B5
> DK-9220 Aalborg
> Denmark
> 
> office: B4-201
> phone: (+45) 96 35 87 28
> fax: (+45) 98 15 21 44
> email: pfh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
>   On Jan 31, 2006, at 2:24 PM, Tarun Pruthi wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I plan to do some perceptual experiments during the course of my  
> > research here. Since, I am completely new to this, I wanted to know
>  
> > if there are any softwares that help in doing perceptual  
> > experiments (organising stimuli, collecting results, designing  
> > questionairre, making the interface etc)?
> >
> > Thanks and Regards
> > Tarun
> >
> > -----------------------------------------
> > Tarun Pruthi
> > Graduate Research Assistant, ECE
> > Room 3180, A V Williams Building
> > University of Maryland, College Park
> > MD 20742 USA
> > Email: tpruthi@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Web: www.ece.umd.edu/~tpruthi
> > Ph: 301-405-1365
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> >
> 
> 




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