Spike Recorder vs Psych Lab 101

Spike Recorder brings hands-on neuroscience recording and analysis to students, educators and researchers. Use compatible Backyard Brains hardware to explore electrical signals from nerves and muscles. Record signals from multiple channels, save recordings, and open them for playback and analysis. Use the Signal, Spike, Events and Spectrum workspaces to examine your data. Measure spike counts and rates for each selected spike train, or compare average power in frequency bands such as alpha. Create named events with colors and keyboard shortcuts. Mark events with on-screen buttons while recording, and keep their names visible on the signal. Adjust channel types, names, colors and filters to suit your experiment. Browse saved recordings with waveform previews, then open, rename or share a recording. New NWB recordings preserve supported channel settings, spike selections, event details and each screen’s scales. Hardware compatibility and connection options vary by device. Explore Backyard Brains experiment kits and learning resources at https://backyardbrains.com.

The perfect companion to any introductory psychology course, Psych Lab 101 contains 35 well-known cognitive and clinical psychology experiments you can try yourself. See how you compare to classic results - figure out how long it takes to mentally scan through groups of objects in the Sternberg scanning paradigm, see if words are recognized faster than letters in a word superiority task, try to spot subtle changes in the change blindness paradigm, and much more! Also included are 11 visual illusions that can be adjusted in real-time, so you can see how size, speed, orientation, or other factors influence your perception. Each experiment includes background information with references, history, and a description of methods. In addition, you can try several versions of each experiment to experience an effect with different stimuli, timing, or conditions. Students can upload their data for automatic combined analysis with the rest of their class. Psych Lab 101 contains the following experiments. Attention and Perception: Change Blindness Choice Reaction Time Dot Probe Dot Probe with images Global Precedence Flanker Compatibility Task Mackworth Clock Test Numerical Stroop Perceptual Matching Simple Reaction Time Spatial Cueing Stop Signal Task Vigilance Visual Search Visual Search (Shapes) Learning and Memory: Affective Priming Dual N-Back Match to Sample N-Back Pitch Memory Semantic Priming (Numbers) Stereotype Priming Sternberg Scanning Visual Patterns Test Common Clinical Tests: AX-CPT Balloon Analog Risk Task Berg's Card Sorting Task CPT-X Go-NoGo Task Iowa Gambling Task IVA-CPT Oddball Task (Auditory) Oddball Task (Visual) Language: Dual Lexical Decision Word Superiority Effect Attention and Perception: Ambiguous Quartet Flash-Lag Effect Hering Illusion Hermann Grid Induced Grating Nesting Squares Ponzo Illusion Scintillating Grid Stepping Feet Illusion Stereokinetic Effect Translating Diamond