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MAC may refer to any of the following:
1. Short for medium access control, or MAC address. Known as a physical address and hardware address whose number is uniquely formatted in hexadecimal format and given to each computer or network device on a computer network. The addresses are usually assigned by the hardware manufacturer, and these ID's are considered burned into the firmware of the network access hardware. Because of this process, some vendors use specific formats in the hardware address. Below is an example of a MAC address.
Because a MAC address is a unique address, devices on a network do not share the same MAC address.
NoteBecause of the potential of tracking wireless devices by using a MAC address, many manufacturers (e.g., Apple, Google, and Microsoft) generate random MAC addresses.
Related pages
- Network and network card help and support.
2. A Mac is also an abbreviation used to describe Macintosh, a line of personal computers created by Apple.
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Vision Resources
The AVA - Promoting Vision Research and its Applications
Includes information on, grant reviewing and writing, Software for visual psychophysics: an overview and other stuff too.
Stimulus Generators and software
Faces:
Face generator: You are free (see web site) to download the demo version and then generate faces to suit. They come out with a little water mark when generated (they also have no hair).
Bodies: Two generators used by professionals and amateur animators alike.
DAZ Studios 3D (free)
Object Line drawings:
The IUAV image dataset
This is a database ofline drawings (772 images of industrial/commercially produced products) from Marco Bertamin and Michele Sinico free to use via the OSF. The set includes author information, object classification, category (computer vs free hand drawing), sec of author, shading information, file size and resolution file size, type and ratio. Also included are (naive raters) ratings:
Beauty (ugly/beautiful),
Lightness (dark/light),
Complexity (complex/simple),
Weight (heavy/light), Style (old/modern),
Danger (dangerous/safe),
Symmetry (asymmetry/symmetry)
The ratings were from naive observers
Please cite: Bertamini, M. & Sinico, M. (2019). A study of objects with smooth or sharp features created as line drawings by individuals trained in design. Empirical Studies of the Arts, doi: 10.1177/0276237419897048
Experiment generators and on-line particpant recruitment (crowd sourcing) sites.
PsyscopeX The classic experiment generator for the mac (updated and improved). It is a work in progress but it has been around for a while. It is easy to use and reasonably reliable. It’s also free.
PsychoPy concieved, built and designed by Dr Jon Pearce (University of Nottingham) as a free (open source) alternative to other ([insert brand name here]) experimental generators. This is a python programming language based experimental generator that works across all platforms.
It's an ongoing project and any bugs typically infrequent, often minor, and usually fixed by Jon and others, fairly quickly. Best of all it's free, and it has a nice and fairly intuitive GUI if you don't like programming but you can get under the hood and get it to do pretty much anything you want. It’s also very easy to generate simple experiments e(including psychophysical types) using lists without any programming experience
Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT)- This may appeal to some of you as research tool (it’s actually for crowd sourcing for research).
ProlificAcademic Pure crowd sourcing – UK based (I think) but with worldwide reach. They have an ethical pay rate (minimum wage).
Opesesame - More open source freeware that can be used to program experiments. It's python based and it is backended by PsychoPy. Mostly very easy to use and it has more colourful GUI than PsychoPy. Being open sourced and python based you can either use the GUI or get under the hood and code. It's also multi-platform.
Vision-egg- This is another s an Open GL hig level Python platform experimental generator for visual science experiments (largely). If you use this software please cite Straw, Andrew D. (2008) Vision Egg: An Open-Source Library for Realtime Visual Stimulus Generation. Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. doi: 10.3389/neuro.11.004.2008
jsPsych - This is a JavaScript library, for running experiments on teh internet in a web browser. The library was created by Josh de Leeuw (and others).
If you use it please cite: de Leeuw, J. R. (2015). jsPsych: A JavaScript library for creating behavioral experiments in a web browser. Behavior Research Methods, 47(1), 1-12. doi:10.3758/s13428-014-0458-y
Speech/sound analysis software:
Praat: Free (open GL) speech analysis software for acoustic analysis (by Paul Boersma, University of Amsterdam). It's also multi-platform.
Audacity® is open source (cross-platform) software for recording and editing sounds. It’s free and very easy to use.
Pasrelmouth Praat Scripts in Python - This is a citable Python Jupyter Notebook to Measure Voice Pitch and HNR. you will need to make sure you have all teh libraries installed when you run it. Curtosey of David Fiendberg, via the OSF
Psychomorph For Mac Os
Face Morphing software
Psychomorph - The best and it’s free though it is a bit tricky to get started with:
A version of this is also being developed here. And an accessible and handy guide was developed by Clare Sutherland (University of York). It can be found here:
FantaMorph - (not free) but pretty reliable and easy enough to use.
SqirlzMorph- Also free but has less control. It's fun though
MorphAnalyser (2.4) this is an independent web browser platform that allows you to view and manipulating 3D images. A very handy wiki can be found here.
Other:
The Computer Expression Recognition Toolbox (CERT) – Emotion recognition software from the University of California, Sandiago (Littlewort, Wu, Whitehill, Fasel, Movellan, Bartlett). Actually there is tons of stuff for human machine interaction to be found here.
Psytookit: From Glasgow University, this is part experiment generator and part teaching aid. It’s free and it’s rather easy to use. Also see wikipedia for a summary.
AnInteractive Introduction to Fourier Transforms by Jez Swanson
Linguistic databases:
Oxford MRC linguistic database.
University of York: Department of langue and linguistic science: Corpora and databases.
Psycholinguistics data bases:
Experimental Linguists : Database forPsycholinguistics, words lists etc
DOIs getter:
Cross ref: cross ref& cross ref simple query
If like me your reference manager does manage dois or (also like me) you are a bit half-hearted when collecting references and don’t have the dois try this free service:
Once registered all you need do is just import, copy/paste or type in your reference and then return it and your dois will be given to you…. If they are available.
Stats related
JASP - Free easy to use (Bayesian and Frequentist) stats software. (R based)
Alternatively you can try
JAMOVI -Free easy to use stats software. (R based - R scripting and development available)
Delighted with JASP and JAMOVI, but need some graphs?
Data plotting in Excel
Delighted with JASP and JAMOVI, but need some graphs? How to get some excellent Excel based graphing going, with a little help from the every helpful Dr Gavin Buckingham
Psychomorph For Macbook Pro
He also recommends thisBeyond Bar Graphs: Free Tools and Resources for Creating More Transparent Figures for Small Datasetsfrom ecrLife blog:
Also see
From Rstudio - Rmarkdown for fully reproducible documents. Rmarkdown allows you to integrate your raw data, your analysis scripts, , the results of your analyses, and a narrative text, all together in one file.
Psychomorph For Macbook
StatCheck : Wanna check for errors in your reported statistics? A free online tool for just that job.
Useful free images (for lectures, talks, etc)
Unsplash: “The internet’s source of freely usable images.”
Other stuff not elsewhere specified:
Mental health : stress guide (free)
Suggested likert Scale developmentlabels