ARCADE is a modular suite of Applications for Real-time Control of subject Actions and stimulus Diplay for behavioral Experiments. It consists of several interacting modules that are running in parallel and take advantage of modern multi-core CPU/GPU architectures.
- The Core module controls and manages the flow of the experiment. A user- generated MATLAB task script defines all stimuli, conditions and experimental states. The sequence of states is what defines the flow of the experiment
- The StimServer module presents the stimuli on screen.
- The DaqServer handles digital input and output: eventmarkers, reward, digital input
- The EyeServer module (and further input devices in the future) handles eye tracking.
- The ControlScreen shows statistics about the current session.
To get started add the ARCADE/arcade folder and its subfolders to your MATLAB path. The tutorial documentation can then be found by opening the MATLAB help browser under Supplemental Software or using the command
doc arcade
Alternatively, open the file arcade/Docs/html/ARCADE.html in a browser.
To start arcade, use arcade/start_arcade.bat
Currently ARCADE was only tested on
- Windows 7 with Windows Platform Update and Windows 10 (v1803)
- MATLAB 2014a (64-bit), MATLAB 2018b
- Eyelink 1000/2000 eye tracker
- National Instruments I/O devices PCI-6221, PCI-6503, PCIe-6251, PCIe-6323, PCIe-6321 and USB-6353
The following people have contributed code and/or ideas to the current version of ARCADE:
- Jarrod Dowdall ([email protected])
- Joscha Schmiedt ([email protected])
- Katharine Shapcott ([email protected])
- Michael Stephan ([email protected])
The ARCADE software is free but copyrighted software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence as published by the Free Software Foundation (either version 3, or at your option any later version). See the file LICENSE for more details.