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Contents

Setup

System requirements

Installing, Updating, Uninstalling

Preferences – pb_prefs

Compatibility settings

Files and folders

Documentation

Documentation

The pb command

Objects and properties

Objects

Properties

Object documentation

Element objects

Other objects – trial, experiment, device, staircase

Making and running an experiment – Coding method

General steps

Options

Randomization

Trial groups (blocks, training trials, etc.)

One-off trials (intro, breaks, etc.)

Making and running an experiment – Visual method

Making an experiment – General steps

Making an experiment – Options

Loading and running an experiment

Randomization

Trial groups (blocks, training trials, etc.)

One-off trials (intro, breaks, etc.)

Element objects

Element timing – start, end

Trial timing

Visual elements

Response handler elements

Units

Distance units – deg, deg-, cm, ww, wh, wwh, px

Color units – RGB(A)

Experiment results output, Record properties

Results output variables and files

Specifying what to see in results – Experiment run info, Object info, report

Methods

Varying element properties in real time

Staircases

Method of adjustment

Scanners, Triggers

Stereo display

Online experiments

Limitations

Exporting – exportOnlineExperiment

Distance units

Experiment results output

Custom code – New element types

Making/Editing element types

Sending/Receiving element types

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