Programming Behavioral Experiments with MATLAB and Psychtoolbox

A step-by-step guide for students and researchers in psychology and neuroscience, aimed at beginners and offering a clear and concise tutorial in how to program a complete experiment with MATLAB

List of figures. Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Step 0: Preliminary notes 2. Step 1: Initialisation 3. Step 2: Setting parameters and opening up variables to store experimental conditions and data 4. Step 3: Executing for loops to iterate through trials 5. Step 4: Using if statements to define trials and present stimuli 6. Step 5: Presenting stimuli and recording responses 7. Step 6: Saving data 8. Step 7: Debugging, optimisation and functions 9. Step 8: Testing and 'sanity checks' on data 10. Step 9: The basics of data analysis 11. Congratulations! Index