MonkeyLogic

MonkeyLogic provides sub-millisecond-precision computerized control of behavioral paradigms for neurobehavioral experiments.

Key Features:

• Platform Compatibility: The updated version natively supports 64-bit MATLAB on Windows.
• Temporal Precision: Provides sub-millisecond timing control for behavioral task events and data acquisition.
• Real-Time Hardware Control: Replaces original real-time hardware control layers with the NIMH DAQ Toolbox and MonkeyLogic Graphics Library to manage hardware interactions and graphics.
• Performance Enhancements: Offers dramatic speed improvements, an expanded scripting framework, broader input device support, and enhanced graphics capabilities.
• Real-Time Closed-Loop Programming Model: Implements a real-time closed-loop programming model for dynamic experimental control.
• Backward Compatibility: Maintains compatibility with earlier task scripts while improving temporal precision.
• Hardware and Dependencies: Requires no commercial MATLAB toolboxes and reduces hardware requirements.

Scientific Applications:

• Neurobehavioral experiments: Enables precise control of stimuli, responses, and timing in behavioral neuroscience studies.
• Behavioral task control: Supports scripting and timing of complex behavioral paradigms with diverse input devices.
• Closed-loop experiments: Facilitates real-time adjustments to stimuli or rewards based on subject behavior.
• Data acquisition: Provides high-performance acquisition with synchronized graphics output and event timing.

Methodology:

Implemented as a MATLAB-based system running on 64-bit MATLAB on Windows, MonkeyLogic uses the custom NIMH DAQ Toolbox and MonkeyLogic Graphics Library and removes legacy real-time hardware-control layers to manage hardware interactions and graphical outputs.