Experiment example: Auditory vs Visual vs Motor stimulus

Author: Hadi Zaatiti <hadi.zaatiti@nyu.edu>

Description

In this experiment implemented using the Psychtoolbox framework, a random sequence of three stimulus is performed:

  • an auditory stimulus with a 200 Hz audio of 500 ms duration
    • stimulate activity in the primary and secondary auditory cortex

  • a visual stimulus with a full field white flash appearing on screen, fixation cross maintained

    Visual Stimulus

    Visual stimulus: full field flash black to white

    • such stimulus would stimulate the occipital visual cortex

  • a motor stimulus requiring a button press
    • should stimulate the contralateral motor cortex

Every stimulis occurrence is spaced from the next one by an Inter-Stimulus Interval (ISI) randomly picked from 2 to 2.5 seconds (with 100 ms step size)

Stimulus Code access

Auditory vs Visual vs Motor Experiment Code

Auditory vs Visual vs Motor Processing Pipeline Code

Data access

Acquired datasets are stored safely on NYU Box under audio-visual-motor.

MEG Data Directory

Analysis results

Auditory vs Visual vs Motor Pipeline Notebook