psylab is distributed in the hope to be useful for its users. Because psylab is licensed free of charge, psylab comes with absolutely NO warranty. The entire risk as to the quality and performance of the program is with the user.
Special attention is drawn to the fact that there is
no mechanism inside psylab that would prevent the
presentation of too loud sound levels.
It is the obligation of any user of psylab to make sure that
the generated stimuli, in combination with the other equipment (sound
card, amplifier, headphone or loudspeaker etc.) result in the desired
sound levels.
Download psylab
We invite users who download psylab to leave a short note via email to
psylab_AT_fh-oldenburg.de,
stating your intended use, how you heard about psylab, and the like.
This is fully voluntary, but you will possibly benefit from this via
announcements about new versions/features of psylab in the near or far
future. Stay relaxed, your email will definitely not be used for any
other purpose. Constructive comments about psylab are of course
appreciated as well.
The current version of psylab can be downloaded
as a *.zip-file
or as a *.tar.gz-file.
Unpack that file into some directory of your choice. For psylab
version x.y, include the newly generated directory "psylab-x.y" into
your matlab path and off you go. Read the documentation in the
"doc"-subdirectory or try the example in the "examples"-subdirectory.
Documentation of psylab
The documentation is part of the psylab distribution.
You will find it in the "doc"-subdirectory of the package.
You can also find it here.
Quick start with psylab
The documentation contains a chapter about how to install and how to
quickly start with psylab by the use of some example experiments.
History of psylab
psylab is based on many ideas of the program SI/SISG, which was
developed as a free software during 1989 - 1992 at Drittes
Physikalisches Institut, Universität Göttingen. SI/SISG carried the
GNU GPL licence.
SI ("Signalverarbeitung interaktiv") was written in Fortran by Dirk
Püschel and René Koch and further colleagues and was used for digital
signal generation and analysis. SISG, making use of SI, was written
by Ralf Fassel, and was used for development, control, and data
evaluation of psychoacoustical experiments.
The principle and organisation of psylab was inspired by its
predecessor "SISG" in many ways and credits are expressed to the
authors of SI/SISG.
Screenshots of psylab
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| 3-AFC answer panel |
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| example run (result plot for one run) |
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| example data for two-parameter experiment |
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| example data for same two-parameter experiment, replotted |
@InProceedings{hansen_2006a,
author = {Hansen, M.},
title = {Lehre und Ausbildung in Psychoakustik mit psylab:
freie Software für psychoakustische Experimente},
booktitle = {Fortschritte der Akustik -- DAGA~'06},
pages = {591--592},
year = 2006,
address = {Braunschweig},
publisher = {Dega},
annote = {first publication about psylab}
}
or you can refer to the documentation of psylab at the following URL: