In the past, we have also had hands-on group project, designing and programming up a simple, but working, behavioural experiment, 6 weeks. A brief overview of this part of the course is in the in the behaviour section.
| Week | Unit | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | aToZ-intro | What is Matlab, the environment, variables, indexing, … |
| 2 | aToZ-intro | Types of data: numeric, logical, text, etc. |
| 3 | aToZ-intro | Indexing, looping, branching, functions, … |
| 4 | aToZ-intro | Understanding someone else’s code |
| 5b | behaviour-01 | Overview: building a simple psychophysical experiment; info from experimenter & subject |
| 6b | behaviour-02 | Making a stimulus and putting it up on the screen |
| 7b | behaviour-03 | Getting responses from the subject & fine-tuning |
| 8b | behaviour-04 | Analyzing the behavioural data, fitting and plotting |