Interactive Light Stimulus Generation with High Performance Real-Time Image Processing and Simple Scripting.

ABSTRACT: Light stimulation with precise and complex spatial and temporal modulation is demanded by a series of research fields like visual neuroscience, optogenetics, ophthalmology, and visual psychophysics. We developed a user-friendly and flexible stimulus generating framework (GEARS GPU-based Eye And Retina Stimulation Software), which offers access to GPU computing power, and allows interactive modification of stimulus parameters during experiments. Furthermore, it has built-in support for driving external equipment, as well as for synchronization tasks, via USB ports. The use of GEARS does not require elaborate programming skills. The necessary scripting is visually aided by an intuitive interface, while the details of the underlying software and hardware components remain hidden. Internally,

SUBMITTER: Szecsi L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5733361 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature