S]"]>Blockedlus Control: a teaching machine for free behavioral experiments

[cpicanco]

Hi everyone,

Some background about me
I am Rafael Picanço (cpicanco), a Ph.D. student studying recombinatory reading skills with a behavioral approach. Approximately 10 years ago, I began editing the source code of a Delphi 7 program called "Emparelhamento ao Modelo (EAM)", that can be translated to "Matching-to-sample (MTS)". The software was used to present experiments for monkeys in the "Experimental School for Primates" lab. Fast forward, I ported it to Lazarus, gave it a hip new identity – "S]"]>Blockedlus Control" – and even threw in a fancy rewrite. Today, I am conducting experiments with humans and maintaining a version of the sotware for my monkey buddies as well.

What is S]"]>Blockedlus Control?
S]"]>Blockedlus control, in the context of Experimental Analysis of Behavior, refers to the influence that certain s]"]>Blockedli have on behavior. It is the idea that behaviors are more likely to occur in the presence of specific s]"]>Blockedli or cues. Let me give you a really simple example of the conditional control that may be exerted by s]"]>Blockedli. Green means go, red means stop, and yellow is the universe's way of saying, "Hey, maybe start stopping – but no rush!  " 🚦

"S]"]>Blockedlus Control" aligns with the concept of event-driven programming and conditional execution. Specially for humans with normal vision, experiments will normally require custom built graphical user interfaces. For example, I am currently studying the development of recombinatory reading using pseseudowords and eye tracking with a rather complicated design. If you are curious enough, here is the source Hanna et al (2011).https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3014779/

S]"]>Blockedlus Control is the name of the project, the codebase I am using to write experiments for my scientific community. As I frequently deal with teaching procedures and the sofware is released under GPL3, I am used to say that

S]"]>Blockedlus Control is a teaching machine for free behavioral experiments. Free as in Freedom.

You can find the latest updates here:
https://github.com/cpicanco/s]"]>Blockedlus-control-sdl2