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AGREE 5.0
AGREEment on nominal data is developed for research situations where one to more judges classify objects into normal scale categories. AGREE allows the calculation of measures of agreement (Cohen's Kappa or the D2 measure) between nominal scale judgments. AGREE provides for various options, eg: judges did not classify all objects, possible answers are not known in advance, or one of the judges is taken as a target for comparison.
Function: Analysis
Hardware: IBM PC
iec ProGAMMA, Grote Rozenstraat 15, PO Box 841, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
Cost: $250

BIOPACK
To be used with (completed) unit for measuring psychophysiological parameters, e.g. EEG, ECG, EMG etc.. The Unit is connected with fibre optics to a macintosh allowing portability . Can be used for analysing traces or Biofeedback.
Function: Applied
Hardware: Mac, PowerMac
Solutions and Projects, Turfchip 198, NL-1186 XS Amstelveen, The Netherlands.
Email: solutions@projects.knoware.nl
Cost: Contact Publisher

Brain Hemisphere Information Processing
Presents geometric or verbal stimuli randomly to left and right visual fields with millisecond accuracy. Recall or recognition are dependent variable options.
Function: Building, Tutorial
Hardware: IBM PC
Life Science Associates, 1 Fenimore Road, Bayport, NY 11705-2115, USA
Email: franklsa@aol.com
Cost: $290 (Single user) $870 (Site licence)

Camera
System for collecting and correcting ethological data. Its hardware and software enable easy registration and encoding of complex behavioural interactions from video recordings. Key feature - invisible time code in every video frame. Camera provides immediate visual and auditory feedback during encoding. The system includes facilities for statistical analysis, graphical inspection and export options.
Function: Analysis
Hardware: IBM PC
iec ProGAMMA, Grote Rozenstraat 15, PO Box 841, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
Cost: $3750 (educational price)

Article:
van der Vlugt, M.J., Kruk, M.R, Erp, A.M.M., & Geuze, R.H. (1992). Camera: A system for fast and reliable acquisition of multiple ethological records. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 24(2), 147-149.

CARP Program
The CARP (Computer Assisted Research Procedure) is designed to present a set of items in a test or questions from a questionnaire on a computer screen and to log the corresponding responses from the subject. The program records the number of key presses as well as the time between the presentation of the time on the screen and the final keyboard response. These response latencies are potentially relevant for interpretation of the results.
Function: Analysis
Hardware: IBM PC
Tom Backer Johnsen, Psychometric Unit, University of Bergen, Sydnesplass 13, N-5007, Bergen, Norway
Cost: Contact above

CARSPAN
CARSPAN version 2.0 processes cardiovascular time series, such as heart rate and systolic blood pressure. Its main function is computing spectral measures of cardiovascular variables. It provides tools for artefact detection and correction of time series, other pre-processing options, and graphical display functions of time series and spectra. CARSPAN is highly suitable for use in various research fields, such as mental workload and stress research, industrial psychology, physiology, and medicine.
Function: Analysis
Hardware: IBM PC
Statistical Solutions Ltd, 8 South Bank, CrosseÕs Green, Cork, Ireland
Email: sales@statsol.ie or support@statsol.ie
Cost: $1800

CETA


CETA, Computer-aided Evaluative Text Analysis, is a computer program for the analysis of texts. CETA is based on the NET method, which assumes that a text consists of a collection of statements which describes the relations between meaning objects, i.e., the words about which information is given. By parsing every sentence of a text, CETA represents the text as a network. Subsequent analysis of this network may reveal the discourse underlying the text.
Function: Analysis
Hardware: IBM PC
iec proGAMMA, Grote Rozenstraat 15, PO Box 841, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands (Email: gamma.post@gamma.rug.nl)
Cost: $220 single user license (price includes shipping & handling, excludes taxes)

Circumgrids
Circumgrids is a software package for the analysis of repertory grids. Grid measures include: principal components analysis, factor analysis, intensity, consistency, logical consistency, integrative complexity, cognitive complexity, ordination, functional independence, cluster analysis and implications analysis.
Function: Analysis, Applied
Hardware: IBM PC
William Chambers, Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, 8111, College Parkway, Fort Myers, Florida 33919, USA
Copy held at CTI Centre
Cost: Free
Download copy of the Software

Review:
Glendon, I. (1991). Psychology Software News, 2(3), 88.
Presentation: **
Content: **

Clan
One of three basic tools for language analysis of transcript data by computer that have been developed in the context of the Child Language Data Exchange System (CHILDES) project.
Function: Analysis
Hardware: Mac, IBM PC
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 365 Broadway, Hillsdale, New Jersey 07642-1487, USA
Cost: $25

CLASS 1.0
CLASS is a knowledge-based system for converting complex classifications. At present, a knowledge base is available for conversion to classifications of occupations. CLASS looks for the best classification of an occupation on the basis of the information that is available.
Function: Analysis
Hardware: IBM PC
iec ProGAMMA, Grote Rozenstraat 15, PO Box 841, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
Cost: $330

Computer Aided Systems Human Engineering: Performance
The Computer Aided Systems Human Engineering: Performance Visualisation System is an interactive, hypermedia, ergonomics reference and instructional tool. It supports rapid access to ergonomics data and models, and the application of this information. It also provides the ability to manipulate and experience alternative representations of the data. The Perception & Performance Prototyper Module allows the user to analyse and experience various behavioural phenomena important for understanding human perceptual and performance capabilities.The user can explore and analyse the significant factors; manipulate various stimuli, variables, and conditions; and measure their own performance on standardised tasks.
Function: Analysis
Hardware: Mac
CSERIAC Program Office, AL/CFH/CSERIAC Building 248, 2255 H Street, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7022, USA.
Email: CSERIAC@falcon.al.wpafb.af.mil
Cost: £257.29 + shipping

CSERIAC home page

DARPA TIMIT Acoustic-Phonetic Continuous Speech Corpus
The TIMIT corpus of read speech has been designed to provide speech data for the acquisition of acoustic-phonetic knowledge and for the development and evaluation of automatic speech recognition systems. Contains speech from 630 speakers from eight major dialects of American English, each speaking ten phonetically rich sentences. Includes time-aligned orthographic, phonetic and word transcriptions as well as speech waveform data for each sentence-utterance.
Function: Building
Hardware: Sun, UNIX
Microinfo Ltd, PO Box 3, Omega Park, Alton, Hants, GU34 2PG
Cost: Contact Publisher for individual price

DEEP
Software written in support of the Sega stereoscopic interface for Macintosh computers. Shows the effects of adding and subtracting different depth cues from a sample scene. Requires special hardware.
Function: Demonstration
Hardware: Mac
Contact: ccb@wam.umd.edu
Cost: Contact above

Article:
Sobiloff, B. (1991). "A Macintosh interface to teach 3-D perception cues. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 23 (2), 187-189.

DESIMP 2.0
Discrete Event SIMulation in Pascal is a process-oriented software package for discrete event simulation. It consists of a library of routines which enable the user to construct a simulation model. Results of the experiments are automatically summarised in a final report together with graphics and tables. DESIMP uses the well-known Turbo Pascal compiler by Borland International.
Function: Building
Hardware: IBM PC
iec ProGAMMA, Grote Rozenstraat 15, PO Box 841, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands
Cost: $295 (educational price)

ELI


ELI is a graphically oriented computer program that facilitates the quantification of subjective knowledge about continuous quantities into subjective probability distribution. ELI utilises a scoring representation of uncertain knowledge which is more easily understood than the internal probability representation. Assessors can indicate their uncertain knowledge by manipulating a graphical display of score functions to create the curve that corresponds most closely to their subjective beliefs.
Function: Analysis
Hardware: IBM PC
iec proGAMMA, Grote Rozenstraat 15, PO Box 841, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands (Email: gamma.post@gamma.rug.nl)
Cost: $415 single user (educational), $830 single user (non-educational) (prices include shipping & handling, exclude taxes)

EPIC
A complete benchtop workstation for teaching bioscience at undergraduate level. Combining all the functions of storage oscilloscope, chart recorder, amplifier, and biological simulator into one integrated environment, EPIC provides new sophisticated features and research quality in an easy to use package. Epic can run a wide range of fundamental physiological experiments including human electromyogram, human electrocardiogram, human respiration, action potentials, mechanical properties of muscle, smooth muscle contraction, electrical and mechanical activity of the heart.
Function: Analysis
Hardware: IBM PC
Cambridge Research Systems, 80 Riverside Estate, Sir Thomas Longley Road, Rochester, Kent ME2 4BH
Cost: £3861

EPOG
To be combined with Eye/Head tracking system OBSERVER. It Enables recording/sending of eye fixations and blinks relative to predefined surfaces. It takes account of head movement and with information about the location of available surfaces it can determine the point of gaze. By applying a temporal threshold and spacial filtering the OBSERVER produces results in real time. It can either store these results or send them over ethernet.
Function: Applied
Hardware: Mac
Solutions and Projects, Turfchip 198, NL-1186 XS Amstelveen, The Netherlands.
Email: solutions@projects.knoware.nl
Cost: Contact Publishers

EthoVision
EthoVision is a system for the automatic recording of activity, movement and interactions of animals. It allows the tracking of individual animals (up to eight at once) in the same arena, and allows recording from eight arenas at once. It will automatically record visits to defined zones of interest, speeds, rates of turning, and the frequency of approach, avoidance and contact behaviour between pairs of animals. It also allows the automatic detection of rearing behaviour in rodents.
Function: Research
Hardware: IBM PC
Tracksys Ltd, Vernon House, 18 Friar Lane, Nottingham NG1 6DQ
Email: info@tracksys.demon.co.uk
Cost: from £6000 (depending upon what functionality you have e.g. video frame grabber)

Information available via the WWW

Eventlog
Eventlog is a software package designed to be used as a tool for recording real-time events. Data are entered through the standard keyboard, and precise times of keyboard entries - including the time at which each key is pressed and released - are recorded for subsequent analysis. Eventlog can be customised for a wide range of applications, for example observing the social behaviour of animals, recording patterns of facial expression by scoring muscle movements etc.
Function: Analysis
Hardware: IBM PC
Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016 USA
Email: eat@oup-usa.org
Copy held at CTI Centre
Cost: £130/$160 (6 and 15 pack deals available).

Expert Choice


Expert Choice is a decision support system. It is based on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), a multicriteria hierarchical decision-making approach. Expert Choice assists decision-makers by organizing complex problem-related information into a hierarchical model consisting of a goal, possible scenarios, criteria, and alternatives. The importance of criteria, preferences for alternatives, and likelihood of scenarios are evaluated by using the method of pairwise comparisons. Expert Choice then derives the probabilities.
Function: Analysis
Hardware: IBM PC
iec proGAMMA, Grote Rozenstraat 15, PO Box 841, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands (Email: gamma.post@gamma.rug.nl)
Email: gamma.post@gamma.rug.nl
Cost: $620 single user (price includes shipping & handling, excludes taxes)

Hips Image Processing Software
HIPS is a set of image processing modules which together provide a powerful suite of tools. It provides automatic documentation of its actions and is almost entirely independent of special equipment. It handles sequences of images (movies) in precisely the same manner as single frames. Programs have been developed for simple image transformations, filtering, convolution. Fourier and other transform processing, edge detection and line drawing manipulation, digital image compression and transmission methods, noise generation, image pyramids and image statistics computation.
Function: Building
Hardware: Unix
Sharp Image Software, PO Box 373, Prince Street Station, New York, NY 10012-0007, USA
Cost: $800

Hypertimer
An external function (XFCN) which can be added to your HyperCard script. The function starts a timer on the next screen refresh and waits for a key or mouse press. As soon as such an event occurs the timer is stopped and the elapsed time is returned together with information on which key was pressed or where the mouse cursor was when the mouse was clicked. The latest version includes a time-out option.
Function: Building
Hardware: Mac
Contact: jpugh@apple.com
or as the file Hypertimer.sit.hqx from ftp.stolaf.edu
Cost: $10 Shareware

KeMo Reaction Timing Utilities
A set of functions to help writing reaction time experiments on the Mac including the following: a timer with 20 microsecond resolution; polling functions for ADB devices, such as keyboards and mice, with +/-1.4 to +/-2.1 msec accuracy, depending on your Mac (as opposed to the +/- 8 to +/-16 msec accuracy that you get with "normal" Toolbox functions like GetKeys); a screen refresh synchronisation function for all Macs; functions that hide and show the menu bar; a function to make all other applications quit (System 7 required). These routines are packaged in a library file which can be incorporated into your program, together with header files for C and Pascal (source code for the functions is not yet included). Additionally, a sample program that exercises all of the functions is included with source code in C.
Function: Building
Hardware: Mac
Contact: Dan Costin, 73 Hillair Circle, White Plains, NY 10605 USA
Email: dcostin@ucsd.edu
Cost: Shareware $20

L2T2
L2T2 is experiment control and data acquisition software for use in behavioural experiments including operant behaviour, shuttle avoidance, mazes, activity, feeding and drinking, nesting, etc. L2T2 uses a tabular format to construct experimental protocols. L2T2 includes a graphic cumulative record, all data file print utilities, and diagnostics. A complete event data summary for each cage is recorded automatically, and you can log every event with a run time date. A real time screen display lets you monitor everything that's happening in each cage. Up to eight stations of identical or completely independent experiments may be running simultaneously from a single computer.
Function: applied
Hardware: IBM PC
Bilaney Consultants Ltd St Julians, Sevenoaks, Kent TN15 0RX, UK
Email: bilaney@bilaney.com
Cost: $1245

More information available from the Bilaney home page

Mac-a-Mug


Mac-a-Mug allows the user to manipulate facial features such as ears, beard, nose, etc., creating many different faces. (See also 'Mac-a-Mug Pro')
Function: Building
Hardware: Mac
Shaherazam, P.O. Box 26731, Milwaukee, WI 53226
Cost: $59.95

Mac-a-Mug Pro


Mac-a-Mug Pro is a more advanced version of Mac-a-Mug (also listed). Designed to aid police with suspect identification, it allows the user more control when composing faces, including a large database of facial features. A demonstration version is also available.
Function: Building
Hardware: Mac
Shaherazam, P.O. Box 26731, Milwaukee, WI 53226
Cost: $495 (full version), $20 (demonstration version)

MacLab/2e
A data acquisition and recording tool featuring automatic storage of experiment settings and the ability to transfer data to other applications. The MacLab/2e supports all MacLab applications including: CHART, a multi-channel chart recorder, SCOPE, a 2-channel storage oscilloscope/X-Y plotter, PEAKS, a chromatography work-station, IGOR, a mathematical and graphical package, HISTOGRAM, a post-event and interval histogram package. A range of front ends is available to extend the MacLab/2e into more specialised applications. This range includes: Bridge Amp - measures force and pressure, Bio Amps, measures ECG, EMG, EEG, Spirometer, measures respiratory data, Stimulus Isolator, provides safe stimulation, GP Amp measures high impedance.
Function: Tutorial
Hardware: Mac
AD Instruments Ltd, 9 Provost Road, Hampstead, London NW3 4ST
Copy held at CTI Centre
Cost: £2145 (incl. a Mac Classic II computer)
The MacLab Home Page

MacReflex
This is a professionally produced, user-friendly, and flexible 2D/3D movement analysis system. Specially designed video camera(s) emit and receive infrared light. Reflective markers are used to identify the moving target. If at least two cameras are used the relative 3D coordinates of the target are displayed qualitatively on screen. The exact coordinates can be exported to a spreadsheet for further analysis. The package includes the WingZ (Informix) spreadsheet with an additional pull-down menu of MacReflex scripts that will graph the data (position, position-time, velocity, acceleration, angle, angular velocity, angular acceleration). It is possible to write further scripts, for example, to operate on batches of files. The raw data is available for further statistical manipulation, within WingZ, or following export to an analysis package.
Function: Analysis
Hardware: Mac
Qualisys, BSG (machinery sales) Ltd, 33 Becher Close, Renhold, Bedford MK41 0LP
Cost: £25,000

Review from Psychology Software News, Vol 6 No 1, September 1995
Content: ****
Presentation: ****

MacSHAPA
MacSHAPA is a Macintosh-based software environment that supports observational data analysis, including the analysis of video. Qualitative and quantitative analysis activities are both supported. Users may simply browse video records, making unstructured comments that can later be searched or used to access interesting parts of the video. Alternatively, users may develop coding schemes within MacSHAPA, tag their video records or data files with these codes, and then use statistical routines to analyse the data once fully encoded. MacSHAPA can be used for observational studies in cognitive engineering, cognitive modelling, human-computer interaction, developmental psychology, group decision making and teamwork, CSCW environments, analysis of emergency response, and in many other domains.
Function: Analysis
Hardware: Mac
CSERIAC Program Office, AL/CFH/CSERIAC Building 248, 2255 H Street, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7022, USA.
Email: CSERIAC@falcon.al.wpafb.af.mil
Cost: $80

Review from Psychology Software News, Vol 6 No 1, September 1995
Content: ****
Presentation: ***

MidiLab
MidiLab software facilitates both the construction of musical events and various acoustical properties and on-line presentation of the events. The menu allows the user to configure the system, sequence trials, record and play back data, and perform analysis.
Function: Analysis
Hardware: IBM PC
Engineering Solutions Inc, 5688 Duquesne Place, Columbus, OH 43235, USA
Cost: $384

Nonobject Stimuli for the Apple Macintosh Computer
Digitised versions of the 88 nonobjects used by Kroll and Potter (1984). The stimuli can be used by any program on the Macintosh.
Function: Building
Hardware: Mac
John Brooks, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5548, USA
Cost: $6
Article:
Brooks, J.O. III, & Bieber, L.L. (1988). Digitized nonobjects for use with the Apple Macintosh computer. Behaviour Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 20, 433-434.

Oxford Psycholinguistic Database
This package contains over 98,000 English words and enables you to generate a set of items constrained by any combination of information you wish. It is based primarily on the DICT file of the MRC database which was based on a number of smaller databases including Gilhooly and Logie, Kucera and Francis, Paivio, Yuille and Madigan and Toglia and Battig.
Function: Building
Hardware: Mac
Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford
Email: Caldwelj@oup.co.uk
Cost: £205.63

Review:
Harley, T. (1993). Psychology Software News, 3(3), 95-96.
Presentation: ***
Content: ****

Parallel
Incorporates the equations given by Allen and Hubbard as well as those by Montanelli and Humphreys (1976) to derive estimated random data Eigencontents for principal components and common factor analysis. These results are useful in setting an upper bound for the number of factors to rotate in exploratory factor analysis.
Function: Analysis
Hardware: IBM PC
RAND Corporation, Department of Social Policy, 1700 Main Street, Santa Monica CA 90406-2138, USA
Cost: Free

PARSCALE
The PARSCALE program extends item response theoretic (IRT) measurement methods to multiple-category rating scale items in order to provide efficient scaling of the data obtained.
Function: Analysis
Hardware: IBM PC
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 365 Broadway, Hillsdale, New Jersey 07642-1487, USA
Cost: $440

pcSTEREOSCOPE
A stereoscopic 3-D system. The pcSTEREOSCOPE time-multiplexes left eye and right eye images, yielding a 30 Hz frame rate at each eye to provide colour 640 x 350 pixel images. The hardware package consists of a single ISA card, one pair of liquid crystal shutter glasses and a connector. A trackball with an additional potentiometer for the z-axis is available as an optional 3-D input device.
Function: Simulation
Hardware: IBM PC
Vision Research Graphics Inc, 99 Madbury Road, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
Email: urg@curtech.com
Cost: $450

PEPPER
A series of ten analysis programs provides quantitative profiles of consonants, vowels, displays by segment, word, position, phonetic features & phonological processes. These phonetic, phonological, and prosodic analyses can be performed on transcriptions of speech samples obtained from an individual or a group of individuals.
Function: Analysis
Hardware: IBM PC
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 365 Broadway, Hillsdale, New Jersey 07642-1487, USA
Cost: $495

PERFORM
Perform is a test manager with a series of performance tests.It complies with AGARD standard AG-308 and encompasses reaction time tests, memory tests and unstable tracking tests. It can be used to evaluate the performance of a person or the effect of a stressor (drug, sleep loss etc.).
Function: Applied
Hardware: Mac
Swets Test Services, P.O. Box 820, 2160 SZ Lisse, The Netherlands.
Email: froest@swets.nl

Propagator


Propagator is a general purpose neural network development system. It performs many variations of the most common neural network training technique, Backpropagation. You do not need to be a neural network expert to use Propagtor, but some knowledge of neural networks is helpful. You certainly do not need to be a programmer to effectively use Propagator.
Function: Simulation
Hardware: Mac, IBM PC, Sun
ARD Corporation, 9151 Rumsey Road, Columbia, Maryland 21045-1942, US
Email: propagator@ard.com , or mhm@worldweb.net
Cost: Mac & PC versions $94,95, Sun $194.59 (25% educaional discount available)

Review:
Harley, T (1994) Psychology Software News, vol 5, no2, 72-73.
Presentation: ****
Content: ***

Propagator demo

Random Assignment
This program makes random assignments of numbered subjects to experimental groups coded by the investigator.
Function: Analysis
Hardware: Mac
CoolSpring Software, P.O. Box 130, Woodsboro, Maryland 21798, USA
CoolSpring Home Page
Cost: $39

Randomizer 10
Randomizer is a modest HyperCard stack that makes random assignment to conditions easier. It will randomly reorder a list of subject numbers which can then be divided into conditions. It will also randomly reorder anything typed into the main field, and can be used to produce randomly ordered lists of stimuli.
Function: Building
Hardware: Mac
Contact: huff@mailhost.stolaf.edu
Cost: Contact above

Routine for Degrading Visual Stimuli in MS-BASIC on the Macintosh
Routines that can extend the functionality of Microsoft BASIC on the Macintosh. The routines can be incorporated into programs to perform perceptual identification experiments and measure reaction times.
Function: Building
Hardware: Mac
John Brooks, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5548, USA
Cost: $6

Article:
Brooks, J.O. III. (1987). Enhancing and degrading visual stimuli. Behaviour Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 19, 260-269.

Speech Animator 1.0
A HyperCard directory of digitised sounds for the international phonetic alphabet.
Function: Building
Hardware: Mac
Capedia, 11 Lower Dagnall Street, St Albans AL3 4PE
Cost: $49 (Single copy) $199 (Site licence)

Stimuli for Recognition Memory Experiments
Snodgrass and Vanderwart (1980) published norms for 260 line drawings. Each drawing is rated on name agreement, image agreement, familiarity and visual complexity. These stimuli have been digitised and stored in MacPaint format for easy use in memory experiments.
Function: Building
Hardware: Mac
John Brooks, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences, School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-5548, USA
Cost: Contact above

Subjective Time Estimation


This application allows the user to implement subjective time estimation methodology. Subjective time estimation is a prominant area of experimental psychology and cognitive psychology. This program allows the user to present the standard time estimation procedure with counting distraction. The user presents time intervals which are estimated by the subject using the method of verbal estimation. Visual field and attention are incidental measures derived from the procedure. The program is useful in research studies of memory and time estimation.
Function: Applied
Hardware: Mac
CoolSpring Software, P.O. Box 130, Woodsboro, Maryland 21798, USA
CoolSpring Home Page
Cost: $39.00 (individual user), $117.00 (site license)

Synthesiser
The Synthesiser application can be used to design and test complex stimuli for use in psychoacoustic experimentation, and the accompanying libraries can be incorporated into user programs to enable real-time playback of these stimuli.
Function: Building
Hardware: Mac, PowerMac
Contact: P.T.Russell@sussex.ac.uk
Cost: Free to academic institutions, comercial organisations should contact author

Synthesiser Home Page including distribution of the latest edition via ftp.

T-Scope
A tachistoscope program that can run a broad variety of procedures. The Configure T-Scope application can be used to specify eleven parameters for each trial. Parameters that vary from trial to trial are specified in a stimulus file saved in text-only format. The experiment is run with the TScope program after the user has specified the configuration file and the stimulus file. Examples of procedures TScope can support are: word-superiority effect, memory scanning, serial position effect, sentence verification, priming. An upgrade to support colour displays and small PICT files is under development.
Function: Building
Hardware: Mac
Dan Reisberg, Department of Psychology, Reed College, Portland OR 97202, USA
Cost: $20 (Single copy)

Article:
Doenias, J.M., Langland, S.E. & Reisberg, D. (1992). A versatile, user-friendly tachistoscope for the Macintosh. Behaviour Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 24(3), 434-439.

The Dream Machine
Intended to assist in dream analysis. Also includes tutorials, dream dictionary and dream log.
Function: Analysis, Tutorial
Hardware: Mac
Projected Learning Programs Inc, PO Box 3008, Paradise, CA 95967-3008, USA
Cost: $49.95

The Observer 3.0
The Observer is an integrated software package for direct event recording and data analysis in behavioural research. The Observer is flexible, allowing scan, focal and ad libitum sampling, and continuous, instantaneous and one-zero recording. The Observer allows the recording of up to 999 different behavioural events and modifiers from up to 120 subjects. Event recording programs may be downloaded to many hand held computers for use in situations away from the desk top PC. An interface is available for direct coding from video tapes, allowing them to be played at whatever speed is suitable for any particular point of the tape.
Function: Analysis
Hardware: Mac, IBM PC (new for windows)
Tracksys Ltd, Vernon House, 18 Friar Lane, Nottingham NG1 6DQ
Email: info@tracksys.demon.co.uk
Copy held at CTI Centre
Cost: £1190 (£320 DOS to Windows update)

Information available via the WWW.

Article:
Noldus, L.P.J.J. (1991). The Observer: A software system for collection and anlysis of observational data. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments & Computers, 23(3), 415-429.

Review:
Lazarus, J. (1994). Psychology Software News, 4 (2&3), 50-51.
Presentation: ****
Content: ****

The PC as a Laboratory Instrument
Consists of two parts. Part 1 "Lab Assistant" contains ready-to-use real-time programs. These include: discrete event recorders, analogue recorder with biofeedback capability, simple oscilloscope, colour tachistoscope, reaction time, statistics and histogram, plot data, convert files. Part II "Lab Tutorial" consists of text and disks designed to be used together to learn how to write real-time programs using Turbo Pascal.
Function: Practicals, Tutorial
Hardware: IBM PC
Life Science Associates, 1 Fenimore Road, Bayport, NY 11705-2115, USA
Email: franklsa@aol.com
Cost: $250 (Single user) $750 (Site licence)

TimeVideo 1.13
TimeVideo is a Macintosh test program that checks out the timing of all video devices in anticipation of their use in critical real-time applications, e.g. movies or lookup table animation. For each video card, TimeVideo measures the video frame rate, frequency of VBL interrupts (supposed to be one per frame), how long it takes to load the clut, and how much of the screen you can fill with a real-time (one-image-per-frame) movie. These tests are performed for every pixel depth and every video card.
Function: Analysis
Hardware: Mac
Contact: denis@xp.psych.nyu.edu
Cost: free

Copy of software available from ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/info-mac/cfg/time-video-372.hqx

VideoToolbox
The VideoToolbox is a collection of nearly two hundred C subroutines and several demo and utility programs written to do visual psychophysics with Macintosh computers. It should be useful to anyone who wants to present accurately specified visual stimuli or use the Mac for psychometric experiments. The text file "Video synch" discusses all the ways of synchronizing programs to video displays and the many pitfalls to avoid. The TimeVideo application checks out the timing of all video devices in anticipation of their use in critical real-time applications, e.g. movies or lookup-table animation. Low-level routines control video timing and lookup tables, display real-time movies, and implement the luminance-control algorithms suggested by Pelli and Zhang. High-level routines help analyze psychophysical experiments (e.g. graphing or maximum-likelihood fitting of psychometric data).
Function: Building
Hardware: Mac
Contact: denis@xp.psych.nyu.edu
Cost: Free

Software available from ftp://mirrors.aol.com/pub/info-mac/dev/lib/video-tolbox-95-06-14-c.hqx

Article:
Pelli, D.G. and Zhang, L. (1991). Accurate control of contrast on microcomputer displays. Vision Research, 31, 1337-1360.

VisionWorks
A PC based, stereo-capable computer graphics system specialised for use as a visual stimulus generator and experiment controller. Includes a complete multiprocessor, modular software development environment for general and stereoscopic computer graphics. Stimulus Generation Module (StimulusMaker) allows generation of complex stimuli sequences without programming. A memory only demo disk is available for standard PC's
Function: Aplied
Hardware: IBM PC
Vision Research Graphics Inc, 99 Madbury Road, Durham, New Hampshire 03824, USA
Email: urg@curtech.com
Cost: $8,500 - $40,000

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