Ease of Use
SuperLab Pro was and remains today the easiest to use experiment software on the market. You can go through the tutorial chapter and be using the software in less than one hour!

Quality
Enormous attention was paid to the accuracy of reaction time in the software. This, combined with its ease of use, makes SuperLab Pro an excellent tool for both education and research. Just take a look at the partial list of published papers that used SuperLab Pro to collect the necessary data.

Affordability
SuperLab Pro is one of the most affordable programs in its category.

We Back You With Hardware
Many users find themselves sooner or later needing some hardware. Cedrus offers a wide range of hardware to support SuperLab Pro including response boxes, I/O cards, and video splitters. And there is more to come: we have three hardware projects currently on the drawing board.

Expandability
Do you need to interface to a special purpose device or create your own type of events? Are you handy with a compiler or have access to programming skills? Only SuperLab Pro for Windows offers the Software Development Kit (SDK) necessary to extend the program's functionality beyond what is shipped to you. And it's free.

Cross Platform Support
SuperLab Pro runs on the Macintosh, Power Macintosh, Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows NT.

Input Options
SuperLab Pro supports a wide range of input modules that a subject or patient can use.

Standard Keyboard
Both SuperLab Pro for Macintosh and SuperLab Pro for Windows support input from the keyboard. The "standard" keyboard input module is not very accurate, only 16.6 milliseconds resolution on the Macintosh and anywhere from 15 to 35 milliseconds on the PC.

ADB Keyboard
In addition to the Standard Keyboard, SuperLab Pro for Macintosh also supports a different keyboard implementation called the ADB Keyboard. ADB is short for Apple Desktop Bus. This is the "bus" (wire) that connects your keyboard, mouse, and up to 14 additional devices to your Macintosh. The ADB Keyboard input module offers a resolution of 3.5 to 4 milliseconds. This is achieved by "talking" to the keyboard directly and bypassing a few layers in the operating system.

Standard Mouse (Used Also With Touchscreens)
Both SuperLab Pro for Macintosh and SuperLab Pro for Windows support input from the mouse.
On the Mac, the program  records the pixel's position on the screen where the user clicks and resolution is 16.6 milliseconds.
On the PC, a response editor is provided that lets you specify which area of the screen is a response. SuperLab then reports which response the subject clicked on. The resolution is undetermined but is likely to be in the 20 milliseconds range.

Microsoft Serial Mouse
SuperLab Pro for Windows offers an inexpensive way to obtain 1 millisecond resolution by using a Microsoft Serial Mouse (or compatible). This must be a second mouse connected to a free serial port even if the standard mouse that you use with Windows is already a Microsoft Serial Mouse. This is necessary because SuperLab Pro needs to have exclusive use of the mouse to achieve 1 millisecond resolution.

Microphone
SuperLab Pro supports the standard microphone or microphone jack built into nearly all computer models without the need for any additional hardware. SuperLab Pro will measure the vocal reaction time with a 1 millisecond resolution. The sound level is monitored without being recorded. The subject is considered to have responded when the sound level rises above a user-specified threshold.
For older Macs that did not come with a built-in microphone, SuperLab Pro supports MacRecorder as long as the proper System 7 driver is installed. To tell if it is installed or not, use the Sound control panel to try to record something with MacRecorder.

RB-410 and RB-610 Response Boxes
The Cedrus RB-410 and RB-610 response boxes offer a number of features: 1 millisecond resolution, low cost, a comfortable palm rest for the subject, interchangeable button keycaps so you can use the colors you want, built-in switch debouncing, and low power consumption that eliminates the need for a power adapter.

PST Serial Response Box
Support for the PST/MEL Serial Response Box was added in response to the number of MEL users who are switching to SuperLab Pro. SuperLab Pro supports input from the 5 keys and can also control the lamps.

Serial Ports/CTS
This input module supports the now-discontinued Cedrus RB-200M response box and other user-designed input options. It uses the Clear-to-Send (CTS) handshaking line of the serial port to accept input. Although limited to a single input line per serial port, it offers a simple way to accept input from the outside world without the need for additional I/O cards or encoding circuitry.

Measurement Computing I/O Card
SuperLab Pro supports 2 different I/O card models from Measurement Computing. To use these cards, you need to purchase and install the Measurement Computing Support Pack.

National Instruments I/O card
SuperLab Pro supports 10 different I/O card models from National Instruments. On the Macintosh, support for these cards is built-in. On Windows, you need to download and install the free N.I. Support Pack.
The supported cards are:

SuperLab 3.0 includes many of the features that our customers have requested in the past. Here is a list:

Conditional Branching
Decide which trial or block to present based on the subject's prior response, reaction time, or other factors.

Movies
QuickTime movies on the Mac, AVI movies in Windows.
Note: At this point, there is no guarantee that SuperLab 3.0 will achieve decent timing while a movie is playing.

String Input
Accept a character string as input, not just single keys, e.g. subject's name or response.

Word Lists
Specify an external file containing a list of words instead of creating an event for every word.

Event Templates
Got 100 pictures that you need to present? With SuperLab 3.0, you can create a single event instead of 100, and simply specify the list of pictures. The same applies to sound files and word lists.

Variables and Lists
An intelligent implementation of variables and value lists.

Input from Multiple Devices
SuperLab 3.0 can now accept input from multiple input devices during the same experiment

Mac OS X Compatibility
SuperLab for Mac is being developed on Mac OS X and for Mac OS X. Mac OS 9 will also be supported, but Mac OS 8 support is not clear at this point.

Cross Platform Experiments
SuperLab 3.0's experiment files are now cross-platform compatible on Mac OS and Windows.
Note: The experiment file itself is cross-platform. If using picture or sound files, you will still need a third party tool to convert them.

SuperLab LT is a textbook consisting of classic experiments in psychology and the full version of SuperLab Pro that a student can run for up to four months.

This unique combination offers you unprecedented versatility for teaching research methods or for demonstrating and exploring psychological phenomena. With pre-written experiments the semester is off to a quick start. And yet, because EVERY student gets a fully working version of SuperLab Pro, you can assign homework or an end-of-semester project that requires students to write a completely new experiment from scratch or to modify an existing one. SuperLab Pro's well-known ease of use ensures that the students spend less time learning how to use the software and more time developing their experiments.

This textbook took nearly three years to complete. A meticulous search of the psychology literature was made to identify a set of cognitive experiments which are frequently cited in textbooks and research papers.

The list was narrowed down to 25 experiments that illustrate a variety of different experimental paradigms and cover five different content areas:

• Perception and Attention
• Memory
• Perceptual Representation
• Representation of Meaning
• Reasoning

SuperLab LT List of Experiments

The Fall 1999/Spring 2000 edition of SuperLab LT includes the following 21 experiments for Windows and 25 experiments for the Macintosh: