Program for stimulus delivery, experiment control and rehabilitation

XX members may be interested in the new capabilities of PRESENTATION®,
a program that uses the Microsoft's DirectX computer gaming interface
to provide precise real-time stimulus delivery and experimental
control with any version of the Windows operating system.
Presentation® is the most popular programs for scientific stimulus
delivery and experimental control in the world with more than 21,000
downloads by more than 7,000 researchers.


                                  RESEARCH APPLICATIONS:

 
1.      fMRI
2.      EEG/ERP  
3.      MEG  
4.      Single Unit Recording
5.      TMS  
6.      Eye Tracking 
7.      Psychophysics
8.      Reaction time studies
 

FEATURES:

·       Precise. Presentation® has unexcelled timing precision and
incorporates reporting and testing procedures to assure timing
precision with your experiments and hardware – every time!!
·       Hardware non-specific. Presentation® runs on any Windows computer
with standard hardware including laptops -- no expensive custom
response boxes are required.
·       Flexible. Flexible programming control assures that you can do any
experiment that you want!
·       Easy to interface. Easy interfacing to research devices (e.g., fMRI,
EEG, eye movement monitoring, etc.) through parallel and serial ports
and digital I/O.
·       Matlab plug-ins.  Matlab interface for generating stimuli in real
time. Also COM interface for integrating your custom software with
Presentation® functionality..
·       Analysis Tools. Powerful built-in tools for the analysis of behavior
and performance and for outputting lists of events or stimulus blocks
for analysis with fMRI and other techniques..
·       Low-Cost.  Presentation® is free until 2004 and will cost as little
as $79/user-yr thereafter. Check special student discount rates.

STIMULI:

·       Auditory stimuli. Deliver any number of independent and continuous
sound streams and control up to eight speakers. Generate sounds at
runtime using custom plug-ins. Control volume gains from within your
experiment. Pan and attenuate them under software control.
·       Streaming video with MPEG and AVI video formats. Mix with other
video and auditory stimuli.
·       Animations.  Frame-by-frame video control for tachistoscopic stimuli
and animations.
·       3D Stimuli.  Create 3D "game-like" environments and move through
them while measuring behavior with sub-ms precision. Unleash the power
of your video card!!
·       Multimodal stimuli:  Combine stimuli within and between modalities.
·       Coming soon: Tactile stimuli.  Using Microsoft's force feedback
devices.

USER SUPPORT:

·       Download Experiments. Find experiments published by scientists in
the Annals of Neurobehavioral Experiments and Stimuli (ANES). Download
and run them with a mouse click!
·       Publish Experiments. Publish your own experiments in ANES and try
for the $4000 ANES prize.
·       Documentation. Searchable documentation and forums for quick answers
to user questions
·       Consulting.  Get your experiment up and running in a hurry with NBS
consultants
 
Give it a try: More than 49% of Presentation® users rate it
"outstanding" or "excellent"; more than 80% would recommend it to
colleagues. Download Presentation® at www.neurobs.com. It's free until
2004!