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Whisker: in pictures

www.whiskercontrol.com15 Feb 2006

Overview

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Whisker isinstalled underWindows.

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You run theWhisker server(which talks to thehardware) andWhisker clients(which implementbehaviouraltasks), togetherwith otherprograms inWindows.

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Hardware

Whisker supportsa wide range ofhardware,including digitalI/O devices from arange ofmanufacturers…

… touchscreensvia the Touch-Base UPDDdrivers and anyserial portsupported byWindows…

… any sound cardsupported byWindows (alsoallowing thesplitting of asingle stereodevice into twomono sounddevices)…

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… any video cardsupported byWindows,includingmultimonitorcards…… and serial portsused as digital I/Odevices.

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Whisker uses theTouch-BaseUPDD driver tocommunicate withtouchscreens fromany manufacturersupported byUPDD.

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Whisker uses theWindowsmultimonitorfacility to drivemultiple monitors(with touchscreenattached, ifdesired).

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WhiskerServer_ConfigureDisplays.bmp

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Whisker allowsyou to manipulatethe on/off state ofdigitalinput/output linesdirectly to testyour equipment,and to watch thestate of all lines(or all lines beingused by aparticular task) astasks are running.

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Whisker monitorsits ownperformance,taking care to aimfor 1 kHzhardware polling(1 ms temporalresolution) whilenever consumingmore than 50% ofCPU time. WhiskerServer_Performance.bmp

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Clients

Whisker uses aclient–serverarchitecture.

Whisker_software_schematic.bmpWhisker taskstypically writetheir data directto an ODBC-compatibledatabase.

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The WhiskerDatabaseManagersimplifies the useof ODBC-compatibledatabases (such asMicrosoft Access).

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Stimuli can bedrawn using anyof the Windowsdrawingprimitives,through a simpleinterface.

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The WhiskerVisual BasicSoftwareDevelopment Kitmakes the processof developingWhisker taskseasy.

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Whisker uses ahigh-speed text-based networkcommunicationsystem. A testclient allows youto explore whathappens behindthe scenes.

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Clients can assignnames toindividualinput/output (I/O)lines.

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Communicationbetween the clientand the server canbe monitored fordebugging a newclient.

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For visualdisplays, clientscan manageseveraldocuments, eachshowing differentcontent, andchoose which

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document to showto the subject.

The server can beused to monitorwhat any subjectis seeing.

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The server allowsmany clients(tasks) to runsimultaneously,and allows you tokeep an eye on allof them.

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Clients candisplay things ona screen, respondto touchscreen,mouse, andkeyboard events,play sounds, turndevices on and off,and create timers.

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Whisker providesadvanceddebuggingfeatures, includingthe facility of‘fake’ devices(digital I/O, audiodevices, etc.),allowing you towrite tasks andtest them oncomputers that donot have digitalI/O installed.

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Existing tasks

Tasks written forWhisker to dateinclude some ofthe most popularin their classworldwide,includingMonkeyCantab…

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… second-orderschedules ofreinforcement…

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SecondOrder_NiceExample.bmp

… the Seeking–Taking Task…

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… simpleschedules ofreinforcement…

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… delayedreinforcementchoice tasks…

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… the Five-ChoiceSerial ReactionTime Task…

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… and manymore.