Presentation (software)

Presentation
Developer(s) Neurobehavioral Systems
Stable release
17.0 / January 14, 2014 (2014-01-14)
Operating system Microsoft Windows 9x/XP/Vista/7/8
Type IDE
License Proprietary
Website www.neurobs.com

Presentation is a Windows software application for conducting psychological and neurobehavioral experiments, developed by Neurobehavioral Systems Inc. and first released in 2003. It supports auditory and visual stimuli creation and delivery, records responses from nearly any input device and allows control of parallel port, serial port, TCP/IP and Ni-DAQ for communication to and from fMRI devices, response devices, eye trackers and brain imaging equipment. It also supports Microsoft Kinect for Windows. It is temporally accurate to less than a millisecond, a crucial aspect of control for many research needs. Presentation has over 10,000 users[1] worldwide. Presentation supports Unicode via the utf-8 specification.

Users

Presentation is used in universities and their experiments all over the world, such as

Programming

Presentation uses two proprietary scripting languages to describe and control experiments. It also has a Python module allowing the use of Python to control experiments.

SDL (Scenario Description Language)[9]

SDL is a simple language used to describe the stimuli and trials which make up an experiment. Compile-time logic can be used to generate and/or randomize stimuli.

PCL (Program Control Language)[10]

PCL is a fully functioning scripting language based loosely on C and Basic. It uses strong type checking to ensure that the intention of the programmer is explicit. Loops, "if" statements and subroutines are all supported. It can be used in conjunction with the objects created in SDL, or used alone to create, manipulate and present stimuli. The editor supports code completion to greatly ease introduction to the language.

Python [11]

Presentation has a Python module which allows users to use Python instead of PCL to script their experiments. Anything that can be done in PCL can also be done in Python.

References

  1. ↑ Neurobehavioral Systems. "over 10,000 users".
  2. ↑ Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging. "Stimuli presentation".
  3. ↑ Alumit Ishai & Scott L. Fairhall, University of Zurich, Switzerland. Robert Pepperell, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, UK. "Perception, memory and aesthetics of indeterminate art" (PDF).
  4. ↑ Sarah L. Levin; Feroze B. Mohamed; Steven M. Platek. "Common ground for spatial cognition? A behavioral and fMRI study..." (PDF).
  5. ↑ Steven M. Platek; Feroze B. Mohamed; Gordon G. Gallup Jr. "Contagious yawning and the brain" (PDF).
  6. ↑ Stephen E. Palmer and Karen B. Schloss, University of California, Berkeley. "Stereoscopic Depth and the Occlusion Illusion" (PDF).
  7. ↑ Jason A. Tourville1, Kevin J. Reilly, Frank H. Guenther. "Neural mechanisms underlying auditory feedback control of speech" (PDF).
  8. ↑ Robert Pepperell; Alumit Ishai. "An Interdisciplinary Study of Visual Indeterminacy" (PDF).
  9. ↑ Neurobehavioral Systems. "Presentation Scenarios".
  10. ↑ Neurobehavioral Systems. "PCL Programs".
  11. ↑ Neurobehavioral Systems. "Python in Presentation".
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