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If your lab uses Psychtoolbox please consider buying a community membership with priority support. Funds support the maintenance and future development of PTB. Visit #service" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">psychtoolbox.net/#service for details!

🔔 Reminder that currently active Psychtoolbox trial licences will expire today 🔔 You can buy a software licence for your lab at psychtoolbox.net currently at a cheap early-bird 🐤 rate!

Please note that currently active trial licences will expire on 14th April 2025 and a software licence will be required from then on. Buy now and receive a license at a low 🐤 early-bird rate.

To learn more about the new funding model and why it is so vitally needed, please visit: psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/action-neede…

🔔 Action needed to save #Psychtoolbox New for PTB in 2025 is native support for🍎Apple Silicon and a new licence funding model. Importantly, PTB will remain👐open source. To see PTB continue into the future, please support us by buying a licence at psychtoolbox.net

Psychtoolbox 3.0.21.0 “Fruity Aspirational Cashcow” 🎈🐄🎊is now released. This release is strongly recommended to upgrade to if you are a user of Psychtoolbox 3.0.20 on macOS or Windows. Full details: psychtoolbox.org/news.html

New Psychtoolbox 3.0.20.4 “Sleight of Hand” 🫶 is now released! Featuring new articulated 🖐️ hand and 👉 finger tracking for virtual reality. Enjoy! Full details: psychtoolbox.org/news.html

On the 16th day of 🎄 Christmas #Psychtoolbox gave to me…. A new PTB release with beta quality 🍎 macOS Apple Silicon Mac support, enjoy! PTB "Appletizer“ release details here: psychtoolbox.org/news.html

Psychtoolbox is now also on Bluesky 🛤️. Find us there ⬆️ @psychtoolbox.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/psycht…

Missed our talk at the #VSS2024 satellite event on Psychophysics Software with MATLAB? You can check out a🎥recording of the presentation at the link below. Many thanks to @MathWorks , @INCForg and @VSSMtg for hosting us! youtu.be/05gpkP_EMoc

We'll be giving you an update about everything that's new with #Psychtoolbox during the #VSS2024 Psychophysics Software with MATLAB Satellite Event. Come by on Monday at 2pm to find out more!

🔔Two new Psychtoolbox updates “CamJam” and “Tag games” are now available. Highlights include new Apriltags marker tracking support on Linux and many more improvements. Full details: psychtoolbox.org/news.html

🔔New Psychtoolbox update: Raspberry Cake 🎂 Highlights include: HDR movie playback improvements, 10-bit color support for the RaspberryPi, and compatibility fixes for Matlab R2023b. Full details here: psychtoolbox.org/news.html

Ventral visual cortex contains brain regions selective for visual categories, such as faces 🙂, scenes 🏞️ and words 🔤 Recent research identified two new brain regions that respond selectively to food 🍔 #visionscience #matlab #psychtoolbox #article-info" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nature.com/articles/s4200…

🔔 New Psychtoolbox update: Eye to eye The big new feature is eye tracking support for Virtual Reality (VR) / Augmented Reality (AR) / Mixed Reality (MR) Headsets with built in eye trackers. Please TEST IT NOW and give us feedback! Full details: psychtoolbox.org/news.html

🔔 #Psychtoolbox 3.0.19 Beta update “Virtuality” SP4 The update includes fixes for the Windows drawtext plugin, changes to make timing startup tests more robust against system noise on Windows, various sound improvements and more. All details: psychtoolbox.org/news

Interested in the technical details of Linux graphics? The X.Org Developer's Conference is currently underway, here is more information on how to watch the talks: psychtoolbox.discourse.group/t/psa-xdc-2024… #XDC2023

#Psychtoolbox 👀 gaze-contingent paradigms remap visual stimuli in real-time ⏱️ depending on gaze direction. New research uses this method to map visual receptive fields 🧠during natural free viewing. #eyetracking #visionscience #matlab doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Our 👀eyes move constantly – yet we perceive a stable world 🌍. Kroell & Rolfs use eye tracking to show that foveal target processing already begins before the eye movement, potentially stabilising our perception. #matlab #eyetracking #psychtoolbox doi.org/10.7554/eLife.…

Are you into fMRI and heart-brain interactions? Cuspis, a new tool by the amazing @ValerioVillani from @labactionbody, allows you to interface @BIOPACSystems's MRI-compatible ECG with @psychtoolbox to present stimuli at systole/diastole! psyarxiv.com/gq7mv via @OSFramework

When making choices 🤔 , we often have to weigh up ⚖️evidence before making a decision. New research shows EEG 🧠 can track the neural accumulation of evidence leading up to a decision. #matlab #eeg #psychtoolbox doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…