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Psychtoolbox:PsychBasic
Psychtoolbox:PsychBeta:PsychBasic

Beeper - Play a nice beep tone of selectable duration, frequency and volume.
CharAvail - Is a keypress available for GetChar?
DisableKeysForKbCheck - Tell KbCheck and KbWait to ignore specific keys.
DoNothing - Does nothing. Used to time Matlab’s overhead.
DrawFormattedText - Drawing of formatted text into windows.
DrawFormattedText2 - Drawing of formatted text into windows, with more formatting options.
FlushEvents - Flush any unprocessed events.
FontInfo - Return a struct array describing installed fonts.
Gestalt - Query system configuration on OS 9 and OS X.
GetBusTicks - Number of system bus ticks since startup.
GetBusTicksTick - Duration of one tick of the GetBusTicks clock.
GetChar - Wait for keyboard character and return it.
GetPID - Get the process ID of the MATLAB process.
GetMouse - Get mouse position.
GetMouseWheel - Get mouse wheel position delta on a wheel mouse.
GetSecs - Time since startup with high precision.
GetSecsTick - Duration of one tick of the GetSecs clock.
GetTicks - Number of 60.15 Hz ticks since startup.
GetTicksTick - Duration of one tick of the GetTicks clock.
HideCursor - Hide cursor.
IOPort - A I/O driver for access to serial ports.
KbCheck - Get instantaneous keyboard state.
KbEventAvail - Return number of pending keyboard events in ringbuffer.
KbEventFlush - Remove all pending keyboard events in ringbuffer.
KbEventGet - Get oldest pending keyboard event in ringbuffer.
KbKeysAction - Return an incremented or decremented value, depending on keys pressed.
KbName - Convert keycode to key name and vice versa.
KbPressWait - Wait for key press, make sure no keys pressed before.
KbQueueCreate - Create keyboard queue.
KbQueueRelease - Destroy keyboard queue.
KbQueueFlush - Empty keyboard queue.
KbQueueStart - Start recording of key presses into queue.
KbQueueStop - Stop recording of key presses into queue.
KbQueueCheck - Check keyboard queue for key presses/releases.
KbReleaseWait - Wait until all keys on keyboard are released.
KbStrokeWait - Wait for single, isolated key stroke.
KbTriggerWait - Wait for trigger keys on keyboard.
KbWait - Wait until at least one key is pressed and return its time.
ListenChar - Start GetChar queue.
LoadPsychHID - Helper function for loading PsychHID on MS-Windows.
MachAbsoluteTimeClockFrequency - Mach Kernel time measurement.
PredictVisualOnsetForTime - Predict stimulus onset for given Screen(‘Flip’) ‘when’ timespec.
psychassert - Drop in replacement for Matlabs assert().
psychlasterror - Drop in replacement for Matlabs lasterror().
psychrethrow - Drop in replacement for Matlabs rethrow().
PsychComputeSHA - Return the SHA hash of a string.
PsychCV - Miscellaneous C routines for computer vision and related stuff.
PsychDrawSprites2D - Fast drawing of many 2D sprite textures.
PsychKinect - Psychtoolbox driver for the Microsoft XBOX-360 Kinect.
PsychtoolboxDate - Current version date, e.g. ‘1 August 1998’
PsychtoolboxVersion - Current version number, e.g. 2.32
PsychWatchDog - Watchdog mechanism and error handler for Psychtoolbox.
PsychTweak - Tweak Psychtoolbox low-level operating parameters.
RemapMouse - Map mouse position to stimulus position.
RestrictKeysForKbCheck - Restrict operation of KbCheck et al. to a subset of keys on the keyboard.
Screen - Control the video display. ** Type “Screen” for a list. **
SetMouse - Set mouse position.
ShowCursor - Show the cursor, and set cursor type.
Snd - Play sounds.
TouchEventAvail - Return count of available (queued) touch events in a touch queue.
TouchEventFlush - Delete all queued events from a touch queue.
TouchEventGet - Retrieve oldest touch event from a touch queue.
TouchQueueCreate - Create an event queue for reception of touch input.
TouchQueueRelease - Release an event queue for touch input, once no longer needed.
TouchQueueStart - Start touch recording on a touch queue.
TouchQueueStop - Stop touch recording on a touch queue.
VideoRefreshFromMeasurement - Alternative calibration procedure to find exact video refresh interval.
WaitSecs - Wait specified time.
WaitTicks - Wait specified number of 60.15 Hz ticks.