Presentation is a high-precision program for stimulus delivery and experimental control for behavioral and physiological experiments. Presentation features include:
Presentation development has been generously supported by NINDS.
Presentation runs neurobehavioral experiments - Presentation is a stimulus delivery and experimental control software system for neuroscience. Presentation runs on Windows and uses standard PC hardware. Presentation was designed for behavioral and physiological experiments that collect fMRI, ERP, MEG, reaction time, and electrophysiological (e.g. single neuron) data. At the same time, Presentation is very flexible and has many features that make it applicable to a diverse range of applications (see Features). Presentation is designed to provide the best possible timing accuracy and timing verification on standard hardware (see Timing Overview). Presentation is also completely programmable (see PCL Programming).
A thorough categorical summary of Presentation features is provided, including multi-tasking, visual and auditory stimuli, input devices, port input/output, fMRI synchronization, eye-tracker interfacing, programmability, timing, external software interfacing and benchmark testing.
Experiments that require precise timing generally have two separate concerns: performance and accuracy. Presentation is optimized to deal with both of these issues.
Presentation was designed to work well with generic PC hardware. Hardware requirements really depend on the experiment. Some experiments may run acceptably even on very old systems. Other experiments may require alot of RAM or a current video card. In addition, some hardware may not work correctly because the drivers for that hardware do not correctly implement the interfaces Presentation requires.