PEBL (software)

PEBL is a programming language that allows users to create experiments by editing text files. It is written in C++, with a language parser designed using Flex and Bison. It incorporates functions compiled as C++ code that can be used in PEBL, as well as a large number of functions written in PEBL itself.{{cite book |last1=Mueller|first1=Shane T. |year=2012 |title=The PEBL Manual, Version 0.12 |publisher=Lulu |isbn=978-0-557-65817-6 |oclc=927122417 }}{{Self-published inline|date=April 2017}}{{cite journal |last1=Piper |first1=Brian J. |last2=Li |first2=Victoria |last3=Eiwaz |first3=Massarra A. |last4=Kobel |first4=Yuliyana V. |last5=Benice |first5=Ted S. |last6=Chu |first6=Alex M. |last7=Olson |first7=Reid H.J. |last8=Rice |first8=Douglas Z. |last9=Gray |first9=Hilary M. |last10=Mueller |first10=Shane T. |date=March 2012 |title=Executive function on the psychology experiment building language tests |journal=Behavior Research Methods |volume=44 |issue=1 |pages=110–123 |doi=10.3758/s13428-011-0096-6 |doi-access=free |pmid=21534005 |pmc=3705215 }} PEBL supports presenting stimuli via text, images, movies, audio files; allows response collection via keypress, mouse, joystick, and specialized hardware devices; and supports a number of networking and communication protocols.{{Citation needed|date=April 2017}} The PEBL system and related files have been downloaded more than 100,000 times.{{cite web |title= Psychology Experiment Building Language —Download Statistics: All Files |website=SourceForge |publisher=Slashdot Media |url=http://sourceforge.net/projects/pebl/files/stats/timeline }}

As well as allowing researchers to develop their own experiments, PEBL includes a set of more than 50 common psychological testing paradigms as part of its Test Battery. Many of its tests have been used and published in peer-reviewed journals.{{cite web |date=22 July 2013 |title=Publications citing PEBL |website=PEBL Wiki |publisher=SourceForge |url=http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pebl/index.php?title=Publications_citing_PEBL |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140323095635/http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/pebl/index.php?title=Publications_citing_PEBL }}{{cite journal |last1=Mueller|first1=Shane T. |date=December 2010 |title=A partial implementation of the BICA cognitive decathlon using the Psychology Experiment Building Language (PEBL) |journal=International Journal of Machine Consciousness |volume=2|issue=2|pages=273–288 |doi=10.1142/S1793843010000497 }}

These include implementations of:

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• Compensatory Tracking Task
• Corsi block-tapping test
• Iowa gambling task
• Lexical decision task
• Mackworth Clock
• Match-to-sample task
• Memory Span
• NASA-TLX
• Psychomotor vigilance task
• TOVA
• Tower of London test
• Trail-making test
• Wisconsin card sorting task

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• {{Official website|http://pebl.sourceforge.net}}

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Category:Psychology experiments

Category:Behavioral experimentation software

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