Day 2 of Psychtoolbox practical course is dedicated to installation of PTB on MATLAB or GNU Octave and running some demos.

1. Day 2:
Installation of PTB on
MATLAB and GNU octave
Psychtoolbox (PTB)
practical course
by Volodymyr B. Bogdanov
vlabogd@yahoo.com
Kyiv 2017

2. http://psychtoolbox.org/credits/
Version 1: 1995 for Macintosh
by David Brainard
Mei Zhang, Elliot Waldron and
Allen Ingling contributed to the first
working version for Windows
Please don’t thank us.
Cite us.
Acknowledgement:
“We wrote our
experiments in Matlab,
using the Psychophysics
Toolbox extensions
(Brainard, 1997; Pelli,
1997; Kleiner et al,
2007).”
Credits!
Denis Pelli
Mario Kleiner
Allen Ingling
Richard Murray
Tobias Wolf
Version 2: 1996 (for Macintosh and
2000 for Windows) written by
David Brainard and Denis Pelli
David Brainard
Version 3: for Windows done by
Allen Ingling. Mario Kleiner, Richard
Murray Tobias Wolf contributed

3. Runtime environment:
64-Bit Matlab version 7.14 (R2012a) or
later, and GNU Octave version 3.8 or later
on Linux, and 64-Bit Octave version 4.2 on
OS X and MS-Windows.
Operating system:
GNU Linux is strongly recommended. Also
works on Apple Mac OS X (Intel) and
Microsoft Windows (Intel), but will be much
less well supported by the developers
Graphics card:
Recommended are OpenGL 2.1 (or better)
capable GPUs from AMD or NVidia.
Sound card:
On Linux and OS X, any card supported by
the operating system should work well, as
well as built-in sound chips. On Windows,
an ASIO (Audio Stream Input/Output)
capable audio card.
System Requirements Psychtoolbox-3 still runs
under Microsoft Windows XP,
Windows Vista, Windows 7
and Windows 8/8.1, but we
don’t actively test for
compatibility with any
system but Windows 10.

4. Installation of PTB and other necessary software
1. Microsoft Visual C runtime libraries: Download Package
redistribuable Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 (x64)
- vcredist_x64.exe
Windows
2. GStreamer version 1.0 64-Bit
- gstreamer-1.0-x86_64-1.10.2.msi
3. Subversion installer 1.7.x client
- Slik-Subversion-1.9.7-x64.msi
4. Psychtoolbox installer
- DownloadPsychtoolbox.m

5. Windows installation
1. Install the Microsoft Runtime Libraries for MSVC 2010
(vcredist_x64.exe). You can find installers for these at Microsoft’s site
beforehand.
2. If you intend to use multi-media functions, you must install the
64-Bit GStreamer-1.0 runtime from gstreamer.freedesktop.org
(gstreamer-1.0-x86_64-1.10.2). Make absolutely sure that you install
all offered packages.
3. Download Subversion installer Windows: Subversion 1.7.x
command-line client (Slik-Subversion-1.9.7-x64.msi)
4. Download the Psychtoolbox installer.
5. Create a new folder called toolbox.
6. Move the Psychtoolbox installer (DownloadPsychtoolbox.m) there.
7. Open Matlab and type the following in the command window:
cd C:toolbox
DownloadPsychtoolbox('C:toolbox')

6. Microsoft Runtime Libraries for MSVC 2010 (vcredist_x64.exe)

7. GStreamer for 64-Bit Matlab/GNU Octave
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/data
/pkg/windows/1.10.2/gstreamer-1.0-x86_64-1.10.2.msi

8. Subversion Windows 1.7.x command-line client
(Slik-Subversion-1.9.7-x64.msi)

9. http://psychtoolbox.org/download
Download the Psychtoolbox installer

10. Various Matlab versions show
instable behavior with
GStreamer unless they are
used without the Graphical user
interface and Java, ie. in
matlab.exe -nojvm mode.
-nojvm mode.
"C:Program FilesMATLABR2007bbinmatlab.exe" -nojvm

11. http://docs.psychtoolbox.org/PsychDemos
Demos are helpful
1. Testing your system
2. Examples of the usage of PTB functions
3. Templates for your own experiemnts

12. DotDemo – moving colored multi-size dots
DriftDemo – animated grating
ExpandingRingsDemo – expanding colored rings
GarboriumDemo – randomly moving multi-size Gabor patches
KbDemo – ID of keys, keypress timing, screen feedback
MouseTraceDemo – recording mouse motion
SimpleImageMixingDemo – image manipulations
PlayMoviesDemo – downloads and plays online streams
A list of selected demos recommended to run
after the installation of PTB is finished.

13. DotDemo

14. DriftDemo

15. ExpandingRingsDemo

16. GarboriumDemo

17. KbDemo

18. MouseTraceDemo

19. SimpleImageMixingDemo

20. PlayMoviesDemo