PEBL (software)
PEBL (Psychology Experiment Building Language is an open source software program that allows researchers to design and run psychological experiments. It runs on PCs using Windows, OSX, and Linux, using the cross-platform Simple DirectMedia Library (libSDL). It was first released in 2003.
| The Psychology Experiment Building Language (PEBL) | |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | The PEBL Project |
| Initial release | 2003 |
| Written in | C, C++, and PEBL (using the libSDL) |
| Operating system | Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Unix |
| Type | Programming language |
| License | GNU General Public License |
| Website | pebl |
Overview
PEBL is a programming language that allows users to create experiments by editing text files. It is written in C++, with a language parser designed using Flex and Bison. It incorporates functions compiled as C++ code that can be used in PEBL, as well as a large number of functions written in PEBL itself [1] [2] PEBL supports presenting stimuli via text, images, movies, audio files; allows response collection via keypress, mouse, joystick, and specialized hardware devices; and supports a number of networking and communication protocols. The PEBL system and related files have been downloaded more than 100,000 times [3].
The PEBL Test Battery
As well as allowing researchers to develop their own experiments, PEBL includes a set of common psychological tests and paradigms as part of its Test Battery, many of which have been used and published in peer-reviewed journals [4] [5]
These include implementations of:
- Iowa gambling task
- Wisconsin card sorting task
- Memory Span
- Corsi block-tapping test
- Psychomotor vigilance task
- Match-to-sample task
- TOVA
- Tower of London test
- Compensatory Tracking Task
- Trail-making test
See also
References
- ^ Mueller, S. T. (2011). The PEBL Manual, Version 0.12. Lulu Press. ISBN 978-0557658176.
- ^ Piper, B. J., Li, V., Eiwaz, M. A., Kobel, Y. V., Benice, T. S., Chu, A. M., Olson, R., Rice, D., Gray, H., Mueller, S. T., & Raber, J. (2012). Executive function on the psychology experiment building language tests. Behavior research methods, 44(1), 110-123.
- ^ http://sourceforge.net/projects/pebl/files/stats/timeline
- ^ http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pebl/index.php?title=Publications_citing_PEBL
- ^ Mueller, S. T. (2010). "A partial implementation of the BICA cognitive decathlon using the Psychology Experiment Building Language (PEBL)". International Journal of Machine Consciousness. 2 (2): 273–288. doi:10.1142/S1793843010000497.
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