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keyboard button number in Psychtoolbox - matlab

- by ariel

Hi I am looking for a table that will give me the number of the button (device number) so I could use KbCheck in matalb psychtoolbox. I am working with PTB-3 and windows XP Thnak you Ariel

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accelerating Wheel - psychtoolbox in matlab

- by ariel

Hi I am trying to write a code that will show an acceleration wheel. as long as the user press 'a' the wheel should accelerate counterclock wize. the thing is that it turn in the right direction but it doesn't accelerate. This is the code I am using . PTB-3 windows XP. img=imread('c:\images.jpg'); [yimg,ximg,z]=size(img); rot_spd = 1; larrow = KbName('a'); % modify this for Windows rarrow = KbName('b'); [w,rect]=Screen('OpenWindow',0,[0 0 0]); sx = 400; % desired x-size of image (pixels) sy = yimg*sx/ximg; % desired y-size--keep proportional t = Screen('MakeTexture',w,img); bdown=0; th = 0; % initial rotation angle (degrees) HideCursor while(~any(bdown)) % exit loop if mouse button is pressed [x,y,bdown]=GetMouse; [keyisdown,secs,keycode] = KbCheck; if(keycode(larrow)) th = th - rot_spd-1; % accelerate counterclockwise th end if(keycode(rarrow)) th = th + rot_spd+1; % accelerate clockwise th end destrect=[x-sx/2,y-sy/2,x+sx/2,y+sy/2]; Screen('DrawTexture',w,t,[],destrect,th); Screen('Flip',w); end Screen('Close',w) ShowCursor If anyone has an odea why it doesn't accelerate I'd appriciate it very much. Ariel

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Specifying a callback in Matlab after any runtime error

- by JmG

Is there a way to specify code to be run whenever an error occurs in Matlab? Googling I came across RunTimeErrorFcn and daqcallback, but I believe these are specific to the Data Acquisition Toolbox. I want something for when I just trip over a bug, like an access to an unassigned variable. (I use a library called PsychToolbox that takes over the GPU, so I want to be able to clear its screen before returning to the command prompt.)

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Psychology researcher wants to learn new language

- by user273347

I'm currently considering R, matlab, or python, but I'm open to other options. Could you help me pick the best language for my needs? Here are the criteria I have in mind (not in order): Simple to learn. I don't really have a lot of free time, so I'm looking for something that isn't extremely complicated and/or difficult to pick up. I know some C, FWIW. Good for statistics/psychometrics. I do a ton of statistics and psychometrics analysis. A lot of it is basic stuff that I can do with SPSS, but I'd like to play around with the more advanced stuff too (bootstrapping, genetic programming, data mining, neural nets, modeling, etc). I'm looking for a language/environment that can help me run my simpler analyses faster and give me more options than a canned stat package like SPSS. If it can even make tables for me, then it'll be perfect. I also do a fair bit of experimental psychology. I use a canned experiment "programming" software (SuperLab) to make most of my experiments, but I want to be able to program executable programs that I can run on any computer and that can compile the data from the experiments in a spreadsheet. I know python has psychopy and pyepl and matlab has psychtoolbox, but I don't know which one is best. If R had something like this, I'd probably be sold on R already. I'm looking for something regularly used in academe and industry. Everybody else here (including myself, so far) uses canned stat and experiment programming software. One of the reasons I'm trying to learn a programming language is so that I can keep up when I move to another lab. Looking forward to your comments and suggestions. Thank you all for your kind and informative replies. I appreciate it. It's still a tough choice because of so many strong arguments for each language. Python - Thinking about it, I've forgotten so much about C already (I don't even remember what to do with an array) that it might be better for me to start from scratch with a simple program that does what it's supposed to do. It looks like it can do most of the things I'll need it to do, though not as cleanly as R and MATLAB. R - I'm really liking what I'm reading about R. The packages are perfect for my statistical work now. Given the purpose of R, I don't think it's suited to building psychological experiments though. To clarify, what I mean is making a program that presents visual and auditory stimuli to my specifications (hundreds of them in a preset and/or randomized sequence) and records the response data gathered from participants. MATLAB - It's awesome that cognitive and neuro folk are recommending MATLAB, because I'm preparing for the big leap from social and personality psychology to cognitive neuro. The problem is the Uni where I work doesn't have MATLAB licenses (and 3750 GBP for a compiler license is not an option for me haha). Octave looks like a good alternative. PsychToolbox is compatible with Octave, thankfully. SQL - Thanks for the tip. I'll explore that option, too. Python will be the least backbreaking and most useful in the short term. R is well suited to my current work. MATLAB is well suited to my prospective work. It's a tough call, but I think I am now equipped to make a more well-informed decision about where to go next. Thanks again!

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