Audiovisual presentation of video-recorded stimuli at a high frame rate

Behav Res Methods. 2014 Jun;46(2):499-516. doi: 10.3758/s13428-013-0394-2.

Abstract

A method for creating and presenting video-recorded synchronized audiovisual stimuli at a high frame rate-which would be highly useful for psychophysical studies on, for example, just-noticeable differences and gating-is presented. Methods for accomplishing this include recording audio and video separately using an exact synchronization signal, editing the recordings and finding exact synchronization points, and presenting the synchronized audiovisual stimuli with a desired frame rate on a cathode ray tube display using MATLAB and Psychophysics Toolbox 3. The methods from an empirical gating study (Moradi, Lidestam, & Rönnberg, Frontiers in Psychology 4:359, 2013) are presented as an example of the implementation of playback at 120 fps.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Audiovisual Aids*
  • Data Display*
  • Motion
  • Motion Pictures
  • Movement
  • Psychophysics / instrumentation
  • Psychophysics / methods*
  • Software
  • Software Design
  • Time Factors
  • Video Recording* / instrumentation