Tag: visual stimuli

Postdoc job: Zebrafish, Natural scenes, Thiele lab, Toronto

The Thiele Lab at the University of Toronto is recruiting a Postdoc for the Fall to work with an HFSP team (UC Berkeley, Univ of Maryland, and Univ of Tübingen) that is investigating population…



Custom touchscreen behavior systems for rodents

Lisa Saksida and Tim Bussey turned touchscreen systems into high throughput tools for rodent behavior assays. When I visited their lab in Cambridge (they’re now based at U Western Ontario in London, Canada, between Detroit, MI…



Pre-preprint: blogging a project

SLAB is trying something new with one project in the lab. Prior to drafting a preprint, we’re blogging the project and sharing the results and analysis. We invite anyone to comment on the…



Processing 2

One of the first posts in this blog was on Processing. Processing is a programming language with an integrated development environment that is specialized for simplicity– ease of learning and coding– and…



Visual stimulation and intrinsic imaging code

Ian Nauhaus, whom UT Austin recently nabbed, is sharing his code for intrinsic imaging and visual stimulation.

The visual stimulation code is based off of Psychophysics Toolbox, which is already in use by many…



GNOOM for spherical treadmill VR

Mice can learn to navigate virtual reality environments using a spherical treadmill, and this behavior drives place cell and grid cell activity.

Christoph Schmidt-Hieber has started uploading his code to Google. GNOOM



Visual stimuli for mice

By virtue of their small eyes, mice enjoy a large depth of field. In a classic experiment (buried in the methods section) Balkema and Pinto put +6, 0, and -7 diopter lenses in front of…



Software for visual psychophysics

This site has a nice big list of software for visual psychophysics. It’s very extensive and includes free as well as commercial solutions: visual stimuli, analysis, teaching, hardware, and more.



RF spotter

On the topic of apps in scienceRFspotter is an iPad app for mapping receptive fields on the fly. It’s intended as a quick way to coarsely map a cell’s RF before moving…



Destroying the curve

So you’re feeling pretty good about the rodent virtual reality system (Hölscher et al. 2005) you have up and running. You’ve got it all… the spherical treadmill with motion tracking feeding back into a…



Online tools of questionable usefulness

While on the Gnotero page (a Python app for accessing refs from Zotero, a Firefox plugin-based citation manager, in case you’re wondering), I noticed that…



Wireless

I recently returned from my private island in the Maldives. Like most of the inhabited islands, it has no physical links to…



PsychoPy

PsychoPy is worth checking out if you need any sort of visual stimulus or psychophysics software. It’s a very nice, extensive program by Jonathan Peirce of the University of Nottingham. As you can tell by…