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Michael Schmid

26 Mar, 2015 02:11 PM

Dear MWorks team
I am seriously considering MWorks for my new monkey neurophysiology lab in Newcastle.
What hardware will I need to get started to train a monkey on a standard visual task involving eye movement responses?
Thanks,
Michael

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Christopher Sta... on 27 Mar, 2015 06:46 PM

   

   Hi Michael,

   What hardware will I need to get started to train a monkey on a standard visual task involving eye movement responses?

   The only hardware required to run MWorks is a Mac running OS X 10.8 or later, preferably one with a discrete graphics chipset (i.e. one made by NVIDIA or AMD).

   I assume you're asking about I/O hardware support? Out of the box, there's a fairly limited number of devices supported:

   • Eye tracking: EyeLink 1000 and EyeLink II
   • General-purpose I/O: National Instruments DAQs, ITC-18
   • USB HID input devices (keyboards, gamepads, etc.)
   • Mouse/touchscreen input

   You can add support for other hardware by writing MWorks plugins.

   Does that answer your question?

   Cheers,
   Chris Stawarz

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2. 2 Posted by Schmid, Michael on 30 Mar, 2015 09:58 AM

   

   Thanks! That answers it for now, Michael

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3. Christopher Stawarz closed this discussion on 30 Mar, 2015 01:28 PM.