Demos: 2AFC

This is a demo of a simple perception experiment run under a two-alternative forced choice paradigm.

You can download this demo from the Demo Package. This is called ori_discrimination_2afc.

Usage

This demo shows how to run a simple perceptual experiment – here the amount of tilt that you need to notice that a pattern is not vertical. After pressing run, a fixation cross appears (to constrain where you are looking) and a small patch of grating appears above and to the right. Press the left or right arrows to report whether the lines of the grating are tilted counter-clockwise (left) or clockwise (right). You can track your performance by double-clicking the ‘Transpose’ icon that appears to the right of ‘Performance Tracking’ (after running the program) – this will show the fraction of ‘right’ responses.

Below is an example of what part of the visual display looks like during an experiment.