My internship project is in full swing now! I unfortunately don't have many pictures to share of my project, because of legal issues with sharing things I discover here at the Salk. I can, however, give you a brief summary of what I've been doing.
Over the past week or so, I've begun collecting and analyzing data for my final product. This consists of me doing an experiment many times, changing things like the Spatial and Temporal Frequencies of the stimuli, to in the end see how the contrast sensitivity limit changes. After I do three runs of the experiment at one Spatial and Temporal Frequency, I change a variable and do it all over again.
Once I have some data, I can analyze it in MATLAB. To do that, I have to take the mean value of contrasts in the experiment, then add all of the mean values of matching Spatial and Temporal Frequencies, to find the mean contrast for that Spatial and Temporal Frequency combination. The rest of this week will be devoted to taking measurements, and next week will be data analytics and preparation for my presentation. My final product will be a Contrast Sensitivity Function, with the x-axis representing Spatial Frequency, the y-axis representing sensitivity, and there being multiple lines, each representing one Temporal Frequency.
Over the past week or so, I've begun collecting and analyzing data for my final product. This consists of me doing an experiment many times, changing things like the Spatial and Temporal Frequencies of the stimuli, to in the end see how the contrast sensitivity limit changes. After I do three runs of the experiment at one Spatial and Temporal Frequency, I change a variable and do it all over again.
Once I have some data, I can analyze it in MATLAB. To do that, I have to take the mean value of contrasts in the experiment, then add all of the mean values of matching Spatial and Temporal Frequencies, to find the mean contrast for that Spatial and Temporal Frequency combination. The rest of this week will be devoted to taking measurements, and next week will be data analytics and preparation for my presentation. My final product will be a Contrast Sensitivity Function, with the x-axis representing Spatial Frequency, the y-axis representing sensitivity, and there being multiple lines, each representing one Temporal Frequency.