OUR CLIENTS


  • Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Mediterranee
    INCM is upgrading to our latest version eye tracking software in the Spring/Summer '09. This project includes interfacing a spherical LED stimulus display, making it the sixth LED Board driver we create. We will be adding smooth pursuit eye tracking functionality to the behavior control sub-system, allowing for a variety of different types of eye movements to be tested during a single task. Novel experiments will be designed and live tested, focusing on perturbations of in-flight saccades and pursuits.
  • National Institutes of Health
    There are four projects completed or underway for the NIMH since 2005. Beginning with the upgrade of five NIMH-Cortex systems (A Program for Computerized Real-Time Experiments) and installation of new Windows XP Beethoven Experiment Controllers.

    To cut costs, we recycled all of the reward and touch interface hardware and wrote new Windows XP drivers for them. We then implemented dozens of automated testing paradigms (Associated, Instrumental, Memory, and Discount Learning). We created reusable software for monitoring touch screen behaviors (poke, release, hold, and tap sequences). We added computerized implementations of canonical manual testing procedures (Gellermann scheduling, Pavlovian conditioning, shaping vs autoshaping, O+A, and match to non-sample). In the future we will be building more advanced rules on top of these already existing procedures. We have for example, already added precise motion to stimuli in response to eye movements.

    The second project is to develop a general purpose data file converter for electrical brain data. A Neuroshare protocol compliant program is currently in Beta release.

    The third project is to add data acquisition hardware upgrades to NIMH-Cortex, a true-hard real-time behavioral control system (single threaded multicomputing on MS-DOS).

    The fourth project is to develop a graphical front-end for designing behavioral experiments. A program compatible with Cortex is in its Beta release stage.
  • McGill University
    Set up and running at McGill is our latest operant testing software version (compatible with Lafayette Instruments). We've also added more tasks based on those developed for CSULA, and additional sensor capabilities (lever and receptacle detection).
  • California State University, Los Angeles
    In 2007 we created our first software version compatible with the Lafayette Instruments operant chamber and installed it at CSULA. The project required only two weeks to complete thanks to Lafayette's great interface design, documentation and telephone support. The installation and hardware interface programming (lights, touch screen, poke, and reward) took 2-3 days onsite. A dozen custom testing tasks were written in the next two days. An additional week of refinements was required and completed offsite within 30 days. The rigs have been running without a hitch since.
  • The University of Texas Medical Branch
    We were contracted by UTMB to create a program for reading behavioral and neural data from REX and convert it to another format called Eyemove. Reformatting binary data is often the most difficult type of job. Thus far we have been able to complete all behavioral data conversions and are working on the neural data component. We have developed a lot of Neuroshare format libraries and plan on doing some further work on it with other partners.
  • Queen's University
    Queen's runs our software with an SR-Research Eyelink Eye Trackers and Wakeforest has been running our eye tracking software since 2002. They were the first lab to add an ASL video eye tracker, and a Plexon interface for sharing data across two systems.
  • Duke University
    There are currently two seperate labs at Duke using the Beethoven testing system. Duke scientists were some of the early pioneers to use Beethoven and have shown great success with it to date, publishing over a dozen studies with data they collected from it. More recently we completed a sigificant upgrade for a second lab at Duke by interfacing sophisticated auditory stimulus hardware. Our system now supports auditory testing systems with up to 200 speakers that can be driven by a Tucker Davis Psychoacoustics system. Yet it is as simple to use, and backwards compatible, with tasks requiring only a single tone/noise to cue the start or a trial or commission of a reward.
  • New York University
    NYU was our first client. Ed Ryklin created the first Windows testing software for them. The program was evaluated by other intramural labs and was selected for continued use and development by them. As mentioned above, we have a large array of canonical tests (O+Gap+A) written and available as templates. This allows us to implement more advanced tasks such as manipulating spatial properties of stimuli while saccades are in flight. Or to insert functions for making abstract decisions to the placement or appearance of stimuli. These more abstract decision making functions can be self-learning neural nets, historical mines of data, and monitor opponent behavior. The program is ideally suited for gambling tasks, and evaluating risk vs reward.

Our Valued Clients

  • California State Los Angeles (CA, USA)
  • Duke University (NC, USA)
  • Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Mediterranee (Marseille, France)
  • McGill (Quebec, Canada)
  • National Institutes of Health (MD, USA)
  • New York University (NY, USA)
  • Queen's University (Kingston, Canada)
  • The University of Texas Medical Branch (TX, USA)
  • Wakeforest University (NC, USA)

Areas of Expertise

  • Email and Phone Support
  • Technical Training
  • Onsite Installation
  • Task Design and Developement
  • Behavioral Eye and Touch Tracking
  • State Machines
  • Sequencing
  • Coordinate Systems
  • Real-Time Execution
  • Charts, Grids, and Graphical Displays
  • Temporal and Spatial Statistical Analysis
  • Databases, Clustering, Clouds, Client/Server, and Peer-Peer
  • Revision Control and Documentation
  • Test Driven Development (Functional, Integration, and Unit Testing)
  • Model View Controller/Presenter Structural Pattern Implementations
  • Code Convention and Orthodoxy
  • Profiling and Performance Tuning
  • Ruby, .Net (C++/C#), Java, [Objective C], Python, PHP, Matlab, and C programming languages.
  • Windows .Net Forms (specializing in UI Grids), Apple NIB (Interface Builder), Win32/MFC.