Cogsys Summary

Cogsys Control
Direct Keyboard Input
Video Control
Text Output
Picture Output
Scope (Digital Display) Commands
Game Port Commands (for button box and auditory experiments)

Cogsys Control

Breakout Character.

Wait: #W.

Output codes to test list: #S/.../.

Assign Variable: $A.

Assign Variable from Console: $G (eg set flash time).

Arithmetic with Variables: $M.

If Control: #I.

Define Macro: $$x...$$.

Run Macro: $x.

Exec and Return to Cogsys: %E (rarely used).

Load External Routine: %X[...] (extensions).

Direct Keyboard Input

Get Key Response and RT: #R.

Get Key Response/RT/Timeout: #C.

Echo Keyboard to Output (collect typed line of text): $L.

Video Control

Mode (text; black/white picture; color picture): %M.

Refresh Rate: #F.

Text Output

Text-Mode Display Text (text written to screen).

Text-Mode Escape Character (eg display `#' with `\#').

Graphics-Mode Display Text #G[...].

Clear Screen; Cursor Home @C.

Clear Screen; Cursor Stays @R.

Text-Mode Move Cursor @xxyy.

Text-Mode Cursor Down @D.

Text-Mode Newline @N.

Graphics-Mode Text Attributes %A.

Display Last Response Time $R.

Display Variable Value (eg `$SV25').

Wait-Present-Response #P (for Meyer paradigm).

Picture Output

Reset Picture List/Type %C (eg %C2).

Load Picture List %Q[list.txt].

Load Picture References %B (loads to next %B).

Display Picture #B.

Create Pictures from CXR %I (arguments depend on extension).

Multiframe Picture Display %J.

Multiframe Cycling Picture Response %K.

Multiframe Picture Response %L.

Scope (Digital Display) Commands

Set Scope Attributes #A.

Scope Display #U .

Scope Response #Y.

Scope Timed Response #T.

Game Port Commands (for button box and auditory experiments)

Wait Any Button #K.

Wait for J1B1 (+/- J2B1) #L.

Button Response #V.

Timed Button J1B1 (+/- J2B1) Response #M.

Timed Response Any Button #Q.

1. Getting Started

Welcome to Cogsys!

This chapter tells you what Cogsys is, where you can get it, and how you install it. It also covers network installation, and helps you get your first experiment running.

1.1 What is Cogsys?
1.2 Setting Up Cogsys
1.3 Running Cogsys