🔔 Action needed to save #Psychtoolbox

New for PTB in 2025 is native support for 🍎 Apple Silicon and a new licence funding model. Importantly, PTB will remain 👐 open source.

If you want to see PTB continue into the future, please support us by buying a licence at www.psychtoolbox.net

To learn more about the new funding model and why it is so vitally needed, please visit: https://psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/action-needed-to-save-psychtoolbox/5674

Please note that currently active trial licences will expire on 14th April 2025 and a software licence will be required from then on.

Buy now and receive a license at a low 🐤 early-bird rate.

On the 16th day of 🎄 Christmas #Psychtoolbox gave to me….

A new PTB release with beta quality 🍎 macOS Apple Silicon Mac support, enjoy!

PTB "Appletizer“ release details here: psychtoolbox.org/news.html

🧪 For vision researchers and psychologists -- having precise control of audio & visual production is vital. You can't measure a reaction time if you don't know when a beep or flash begins! #MATLAB #MATLABAmbassador #psychtoolbox

💻 The humble PC can flash and beep, but can it be a research-grade? Maybe.. whilst high-level languages like #MATLAB are delightfully easy to use, they abstract away hardware control. Low-level languages like C give full and perilous! 1/6

We'll be giving you an update about everything that's new with #Psychtoolbox during the #VSS2024 Psychophysics Software with MATLAB Satellite Event.

Come by on Monday at 2pm to find out more!

Ventral visual cortex contains brain regions selective for visual categories, such as faces 🙂, scenes 🏞️ and words 🔤

Recent research identified two new brain regions that respond selectively to food 🍔

#visionscience #matlab #psychtoolbox

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-023-04546-2#article-info

🔔 #Psychtoolbox 3.0.19 Beta update “Virtuality” SP4

The update includes fixes for the Windows drawtext plugin, changes to make timing startup tests more robust against system noise on Windows, various sound improvements and more.

All details: http://psychtoolbox.org/news

#Psychtoolbox 👀 gaze-contingent paradigms remap visual stimuli in real-time ⏱️ depending on gaze direction.

New research uses this method to map visual receptive fields 🧠during natural free viewing.

#eyetracking #visionscience #matlab

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38564-9

Our 👀 eyes move constantly – yet we perceive a stable world 🌍. Kroell & Rolfs use eye tracking to show that foveal target processing already begins before the eye movement, potentially stabilising our perception.

#matlab #eyetracking #psychtoolbox

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.78106

When making choices 🤔, we often have to weigh up ⚖️ evidence before making a decision. New research shows EEG 🧠 can track the neural accumulation of evidence leading up to a decision.

#matlab #eeg #psychtoolbox

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2022.08.006