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A simple adaptive staircase toolbox for Matlab

Sunday, July 22nd, 2007

Today, I'm publishing a small toolbox for Matlab which enables you to run simple adaptive staircase procedures. Its theoretical basics can be found in Levitt's 1971 influential article titled "Transformed up-down methods in psychoacoustics". Its code flow is inspired on code previously written by Dirk Beer.

More information about the toolbox itself can be found on the project page.

Birmingham, Birmingham

Sunday, June 24th, 2007

I'm happy to announce I've accepted a PhD position (more importantly: they've accepted me) at the University of Birmingham school of psychology. I'll be starting October 1st of this year. I'm really very excited about it and ofcourse I'll keep you updated!

In the meantime, I'm struggling to graduate from my master, which obviously has to be finished by the time I start in Birmingham. Luckily, I've done a lot of work and I'm doing some simulations to predict the optimal conditions for my experiments and I'm about halfway writing my thesis. So I'm getting there.

Really.