The Psychophysics Toolbox.

By D. Brainard. 1997

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Cognitive Science & Psychology

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The neural activity of auditory conscious perception (2025, unknown): “The task was implemented in MATLAB (Matlab 2018a, The Mathworks Inc., Natick MA, United States) using the Psychophysics Toolbox (‘Psychtoolbox’) extensions (Brainard, 1997; Kleiner et al., 2007; Pelli, 1997).”
Cognitive interference elicits developmental sex differences in inhibitory control (2025, unknown): “Matlab version 2018b was used to program custom visual stimuli (Mathworks, Inc.) using Psychophysics Toolbox V3 (Brainard, 1997) and back-projected onto a nonmagnetic screen.”
Stimulus-evoked and resting-state alpha oscillations show a linked dependence on patterned visual experience for development (2023, methodology): “, Natick, MA) 127 and Psychtoolbox 3 (Brainard, 1997; Kleiner et al., 2007).”
Human Beta Oscillations Reflect Magnitude and Fidelity of Priority Shifts in Working Memory (2026, unknown): “Stimuli were presented using the Psychophysics Toolbox (Brainard, 1997) on a 22 ′′ monitor with a refresh rate of 100 Hz, viewed at a distance of ∼ 60 cm in an electrically shielded, sound-attenuated booth with dim background lighting.”
Distractor anticipation during working memory is associated with theta and beta oscillations across spatial scales (2024, unknown): “Visual stimuli were generated in MATLAB (MathWorks, Natick, MA, USA) using the Psychophysics Toolbox extensions (Brainard, 1997; Pelli, 1997; Kleiner et al., 2007) and displayed on a gray background (52 cd / m 2 ) on a gamma-corrected 24-inch ViewPixx monitor (VPixx Technologies, QC, Canada)…”
Effective connectivity of working memory performance: a DCM study of MEG data (2024, methodology): “Stimuli displays, timing, and responses were controlled and recorded using the Psychophysics Toolbox (Brainard, 1997) in MATLAB (The MathWorks, Inc., Natick MA, USA).”
Slow neural oscillations explain temporal fluctuations in distractibility (2023, unknown): “Stimuli were presented via Matlab (MathWorks, Inc., Natick, USA) and Psychtoolbox(Brainard, 1997).”
Cross-frequency coupling of frontal theta and posterior alpha is unrelated to the fidelity of visual long-term memory encoding (2022, methodology): “Stimuli were displayed on CRT monitor inside a Faraday cage, with a black background (1.2 cd/m2), using an Apple computer running MATLAB (Mathworks Inc., Natick, MA) and the Psychophysics Toolbox (Brainard, 1997).”
Parietal Alpha Oscillatory Peak Frequency Mediates the Effect of Practice on Visuospatial Working Memory Performance (2022, methodology): “Stimuli were presented using Psychtoolbox v3 [85]; (http://www.”
Direct Cochlear Recordings in Humans Show a Theta Rhythmic Modulation of Auditory Nerve Activity by Selective Attention (2022, methodology): “…a previous version (th_ptb; https://gitlab.com/thht/th_ptb) of the Objective Psychophysics Toolbox (o_ptb) (Hartmann and Weisz, 2020), which adds an additional classbased abstraction layer in addition to the Psychophysics Toolbox (version 3.0.14) (Brainard, 1997; Pelli, 1997; Kleiner et al., 2007).”
Hemisphere-specific parietal contributions to the interplay between working memory and attention (2021, methodology): “) using the Psychophysics Toolbox extensions (Brainard, 1997).”
Fronto-medial theta coordinates posterior maintenance of working memory content (2021, unknown): “, Natick, Massachusetts, United States) and Psychtoolbox (Version 3.0.16; Brainard, 1997; Kleiner et al., 2007).”
Concurrent neuroimaging and neurostimulation reveals a causal role for dlPFC in coding of task-relevant information (2020, methodology): “We controlled stimulus presentation with a PC running the Psychophysics Toolbox-3 package (Brainard, 1997) in MATLAB (Mathworks).”
Rhythmic beta-frequency TMS over human right parietal cortex strengthens visual size illusions (2025, unknown): “Stimuli were displayed using MATLAB (The MathWorks, Natick, MA, USA) together with the Psychophysics Toolbox extensions (Brainard, 1997; Pelli, 1997).”
Network-Targeted, Multi-site Direct Cortical Stimulation Enhances Working Memory by Modulating Phase Lag of Low-Frequency Oscillations (2019, methodology): “The task was programmed in Matlab using Psychtoolbox [77].”