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cog_comm_tools

developed by Brian A. Armstrong for the Cognition and Communications lab at the University of Texas at Austin.

ABOUT

cog_comm_tools is a middle-ware package taking advantage of Psychophysics Toolbox Version 3 (http://psychtoolbox.org/) to streamline the programming of psycho-linguistic research in MATLAB.

The purpose of this middle-ware package is to make programming --possibly complicated-- computerized experiments with as little MATLAB code as possible, using a library of functions with easy to understand English names.

Psychophysics Toolbox Version 3 (http://psychtoolbox.org/) contains many useful tools with many options. cog_comm_tools restricts the functionality and provides a simple interface for non-programmers (research assistants without computer science degrees or programming experience).

In order to use cog_comm_tools you will need to install Psychophysics Toolbox Version 3 first. (See link above.)

The cog_comm_tools code base is well commented and comes with several examples to help train experimental programmers.

HOW TO USE

(You must have both Matlab R2010 and Psychophysics Toolbox Version 3 installed.)

This folder is an example experiment folder (Matlab code folder) to use with cog_comm_tools.

You can rename the parent folder to MYEXPERIMENTNAME and use this folder for developing your own experiment.

See the _example.m MATLAB scripts for some example function usage. (You can select CHANGE TO FOLDER in Matlab when executing a script to make your experiment folder the current folder.)

The actual MATLAB package code is contained in the +cog_comm_tools folder.

See the ExampleExperiment_experiment.m for an example of an entire (simple) experiment that uses the code.

CITING

You should cite cog_comm_tools and PTB if you publish a manuscript for an experiment using cog_comm_tools.

"We wrote our experiment in Matlab, using the cog_comm_tools package by Brian A. Armstrong (available at https://github.com/brianarmstrong/cog_comm_tools) which uses the Psychophysics Toolbox extensions (Brainard, 1997; Pelli, 1997; Kleiner et al, 2007)."

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