Sending TTL triggers to EEG Neuroscan with Psychtoolbox 3.0.12 (Win7/64bit)

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SLC891 2016-6-2

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Trying to set up my script to send pulses to Neuroscan (EEG system), but I've come across a few issues. This is the opening code to call on the parallel port:

config_io;
address = hex2dec('DFF8');

Then I call and define the function at the beginning to make sure the port is open. This is an example of one of the triggers:

   function sendTrigger()
          outp(address,0);
          outp(address,1);

During the experimental script, I then call on the function using:

function sendTrigger()
   end

1- What am I doing wrong?

2- Why is it telling me: "The function sendTrigger might be unused"

3- If I use the functions by themselves in the CMD line, then they work fine.

4- When I try to nest it in an "if/else" function (one occurrence), I get "Function keyword is invalid here". I understand that I can't nest a function within an if/else, but I'm not sure how to circumvent the problem whilst keeping the pulse in the right place.

Notes: I'm running Windows 7 on both CPUs

Psychtoolbox is version 3.0.12

Matlab is version: r2016a

Neuroscan is version: 4.5

I'm new to Matlab, so be gentle on me.

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Walter Roberson 2016-6-2

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To invoke the trigger, just use

sendTrigger()

The "function" keyword is only used for defining new functions.

Your code should look something like,

function drive_the_device
    config_io;
    address = hex2dec('DFF8');
    function sendTrigger()
      outp(address,0);
      outp(address,1); 
    end
    for K = 1 : 50
      sendTrigger();
      pause(0.5);
    end
  end

In practice you are likely to have difficulty in getting a parallel port to work in MS Windows after XP; XP made parallel ports difficult to access from user-space, and Vista restricted them to pretty much signed drivers only with no user access.

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SLC891 2016-6-3

Hi Walter, thanks. I've changed my code, but I'm still getting: "The function sendTrigger might be unused. It appears that the code never uses the indicated local function or nested function because: There is no obvious call of the function. The code does not compute a function handle for the function. The code does not include a string containing the name of the function. If the code had such a string, Code Analyzer would not produce this message because it would indicate that the string might be passed to feval or a callback."

I have input all the calls to function throughout the script. The script is running properly, but not triggers are appearing on Neuroscan.

Do you think this might be because of what you were saying about the parallel ports?

Walter Roberson 2016-6-3

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You cannot call a nested function from outside the nesting function, not unless you pass a function handle to outside the nesting function. Notice in my sample code that I called sendTrigger from inside the nesting function. This does not have anything to do with the parallel ports.

You might want to consider something like this:

function sendTrigger = configure_trigger
  config_io;
  address = hex2dec('DFF8');
    sendTrigger = @() sendTrigger_to(address);
end
function sendTrigger_to(address)
  outp(address,0);
  outp(address,1); 
end