PTB Calibrations Tab

Calibrations PTB Calibrations Tab#

The Calibrations tab of the Psych Toolbar GUI allows the user to test and calibrate various aspects of the hardware and software, for optimal performance during experiments.

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Calibration

Brief Description

Spatial

Display - Spatial

Presents customized grids on the subject’s display in order to perform spatial calibrations of the projectors (e.g. centering, keystone distortion, etc.)

Luminance

Display - Luminance

Screen luminance measurement.

Gamma

Display - Gamma

Calculation of normalized Gamma color look-up tables (CLUTs) for linear display luminance.

Manual reward

Reward volume

Perform automated liquid reward delivery at different system pressure levels to calculate volume (ml) per unit time (ms) of solenoid valve opening.

Photodiode

Photodiode marker

Test expected photodiode input signals (analog / digital) across a range of luminance changes in order to check placement and determine appropriate marker settings.

EPI

Scanner sync.

Test expected scanner TTL pulse input to make sure that pulses are accurately detected and stimulus timing is locked to scanner TRs.

Audio calibration

Audio SPL

Audio sound pressure level measurement.

Lever calibration

Lever response

Test lever inputs.