KyberVision is pleased to announce the availability of Psykinematix 1.0 Release Candidate 2. Feel free to download and evaluate the 15-day trial version, or use the demo to enhance your teaching in visual perception & psychophysics !
System Requirements
Minimum: Mac OS X 10.4, G4 800Mhz, 32MB VRAM.
Recommended: Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5, Intel Core 1.6Ghz or better, 128MB VRAM or better.
Release Notes
Minor updates available through the built-in updater may fix some issues you have.
Version 1.0 RC2 Released: May 1st, 2008
New Features:
Support for comparison ( < > ≤ ≥ ≈ ≠ ) and logical ( & | ) operators in Expressions,
Statistics on frames duration and skipped frames now reported in the Experiment log drawer,
Addition of a checkbox in Onset settings to prevent the standard fixation mark to be displayed, for example when instructions are displayed,
Size of polygon shape stimuli can now be specified either as radius (center-to-corner) or side size,
Preview exporting supported in Static Composing (copy & image),
Feature Improvements:
Selection of Achromatic mode in Experiment Display Settings enforces now an achromatic conversion (R+G+B)/3 at rendering time,
Support for variable/expression-based position coordinates in Multimedia,
Both response (Hit, Miss) and subject's input (key/button naming) are now provided for each trial in the Trials section of the data table for the first level of the session results,
Condition and variables can now be easily duplicated in Conditions method by pressing the Control key and clicking on the '+' button,
Support for Conditional and Association composing in Timeline,
Support for both contrast (low/high) and luminance (dark/light) modes in RDK and MEF Stimuli,
User interface improvements:
Newly created events inside a group event are now automatically shown and selected,
Category created events inside a group event are now automatically shown and selected,
Calibration warning in Experiment display settings acts now as a button to reset the display settings,
Fixed:
Calibration uses now the resolution specified by the popup menu selection rather than the default one set in the Display Prefs,
Chromatic tri-stimulus values can be properly specified using variables and expressions,
Common properties correctly reset with default values when creating new stimulus,
Age of newly added subjects correctly initialized with default month.year birth date,
Title in Category column is now more clearly visible when selected,
Preview with contrast now correctly rendered when background color is not gray,
Combination of multiple criteria for decision made in Discrimination and Yes/No procedures now correctly evaluated,
Decision criteria in Discrimination and Yes/No procedures now correctly reset and initialized,
Chromatic Mode and Color Space set in Defaults Preferences are now kept consistent with each other,
Size parameter in Custom Stimuli can now be used in expressions.