"Psykinematix is the most powerful and affordable standalone solution dedicated to Visual Psychophysics running on Mac OS X. It consists in a unique OpenGL-based software package that does not require any programming skill to create and run complex experiments. Easy to use, subject-friendly, powerful and reliable, Psykinematix runs standard psychophysical protocols, presents complex stimuli, collects subject's responses, and analyzes results on the fly."

William H.A. BEAUDOT, Chief Vision Scientist at KyberVision        


What Do Users Say About Psykinematix?

I have recommended Psykinematix to students because it is a quality fast-track solution to experiment design and development.

Max Farrell-Whelan, Macquarie University

Psykinematix is an excellent tool for the rapid and accurate development of psychophysical testing. It allows for the swift conversion of ideas into experiments.

Ben Thompson, University of Auckland


The free demo version of Psykinematix is also a great learning tool to introduce visual perception and illustrate psychophysical concepts to students. To learn more about the use of Psykinematix in clinical research, check out our VSJ 2009 paper: "Psykinematix: A New Psychophysical Tool for Investigating Visual Impairment due to Neural Dysfunctions".

MONTREAL, Canada —June 21, 2012—KyberVision today unveiled Psykinematix 1.4 which brings 15 new features, 40 improvements, and 13 bugs fixed, the most worth noting being:
  • Support for OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion),
  • Graph Properties palette in Plotter panel to better customize the appearance of the results plots and with user-defined styles,
  • Custom bootstrapped fitting of measurements as function of independent variables (with error bars, goodness of fit reported),
  • Built-in functions for fitting measurements as function of independent variables (Linear, CSF, VSM, TvC),
  • Support for spatial dithering to improve luminance and color resolution (up to 14 bits per component),
  • Ishihara Stimuli category (with customizable target and ground appearance),
  • Support for imported images as parameters in Custom Stimulus through the "Image File" unit (allows advanced image processing!),
  • Addition of mag(X) and phase(X) functions in Custom Stimulus,
  • Better support for Japanese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters in Text Multimedia stimuli,
  • Support for stereo format in RDK stimuli,
  • Full support for spatial nAFC for MEF and SSS stimuli,
  • Addition of Weber and Michelson contrast specifications to image Multimedia events,
  • Support for Mouse-Driven stimulus coordinates (ie move your stimuli in real-time using your mouse!),
  • Support for Spyder 4 colorimeter from DataColor,
  • User Guide as an iBooks Textbook for iPad (unzip and drag in the books section of the iTunes software and sync with your iPad).

Other Psykinematix features:
What are the hardware and software requirements ?

Psykinematix runs on any Macintosh computer released since 2002 supporting at least MacOS X 10.4 (Tiger) and with a minimum of 32MB of video memory, 512MB RAM, and a 800 Mhz processor. Psykinematix is provided as a Universal Binary so it runs natively on both PowerPC-powered and newly released Intel-powered Macintosh computers.

Recommended System Requirements:

Software: From Mac OS X 10.4 to OS X 10.8 (fully tested with 10.8 Preview), QuickTime 7 or Quicktime X

Hardware:
  • PowerPC G4, G5 or Intel Core processor >1.5 GHz
  • 1 GB of RAM, 5 GB of free hard-disk space on system partition
  • ATI/AMD Radeon, NVIDIA GeForce, or Intel GMA video chip with 64MB
Psykinematix has been successfully tested on the following systems:
  • iMac G4 FP 800Mhz, 1GB RAM, GeForce2 MX 32MB
  • iBook G4 1Ghz, 640MB RAM, ATI Radeon 9200 32MB
  • iMac G4 FP 1.25Ghz, 768MB RAM, GeForce FX 5200 64MB
  • PowerMac G4 1.25Ghz, 1.5GB RAM, GeForce4 Ti 4600 128MB
  • MacMini G4 1.42Ghz, 512MB RAM, ATI Radeon 9200 32MB
  • MacMini Intel Core 2 Duo 1.66 GHz, 1GB RAM, Intel GMA 950 64MB
  • PowerBook G4 1.67Ghz, 1GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9700 128MB
  • MacMini Intel Core 2 Duo 2 GHz, 1GB RAM, Intel GMA 950 64MB
  • PowerMac G5 2.0GHz, 1GB RAM, ATI Radeon 9600 Pro 64MB
  • MacBook Pro 13" dual-core Intel Core i5 2.3 GHz, 4GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics 3000 384MB NEW!
  • MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33 GHz, 2GB RAM, ATI Radeon X1600 256MB
  • iMac Intel Core 2 Duo 2.33 GHz, 2GB RAM, ATI Radeon X1600 256MB
  • MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz, 2GB RAM, GeForce 8600M GT 256MB
  • MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo 2.5 GHz, 4GB RAM, GeForce 8600M GT 512MB
  • MacPro Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2x2.8 GHz, 2GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD 2600 256 MB
  • MacPro Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2x2.8 GHz, 8GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512 MB
  • MacPro Quad-Core Intel Xeon 2x3.0 GHz, 4GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB

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