A new publication by Luna et al used MazeSuite to study the occurrence of spontaneous recovery in human spatial memory.

Luna, D., & Martínez, H. (2015) Spontaneous recovery of human spatial memory in a virtual water maze. International Journal of Methodology and Experimental Psychology

www.uv.es/psicologica/preprints/Luna.pdf

A major update for MazeSuite is released. Summary list of changes are as follows. To get the update, download the latest setup file.

MazeSuite Release 2.5

MazeWalker (v2.10.0.0)

• New feature: Top-down (bird’s eye) and perspective views (3/4 side) of maze navigation, fixed or free orientation and customized view type of the maze
  • Edit from main window top menu Advanced>Perspective Settings dialog
• New feature: Multiple choice question presentation in maze list
  • Add a question and as many options as necessary, users answer will be recorded in the log.
• New option: Restart maze option at the end of a maze (use escape button to bring the dialog up)
  • Restarting reloads the maze immediately appearing in the log file as a separate maze list item
• New option to hide rendered maze background during message dialog display
  • Option is available under ‘Other Settings’
• New option to adjust Field of View to allow rendering to more properly occur on wide displays, default is 45 degrees, on triple monitors 75 degrees may be recommended.
  • This is available under ‘Advanced Graphics-> Other Visual Settings’

MazeMaker (v2.10.0.0)

• Multiple choice item in maze lists
• Flip option for wall textures
• Minor improvements

MazeAnalyzer (v1.9.0.0)

• New quick start panel at startup
• Minor improvements

A new publication by Walkowiak et al used MazeSuite to study  individual differences and personality correlates of navigational performance during spatial learning.

Walkowiak, S., Foulsham, T., & Eardley, A. F. (2015). Individual differences and personality correlates of navigational performance in the virtual route learning task. Computers in Human Behavior, 45, 402-410.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S074756321400764X

A new publication by Buckley et al used MazeSuite to assess the relationship of shape and landmark information during spatial learning.

Buckley, M. G., Smith, A. D., & Haselgrove, M. (2014). Learned predictiveness training modulates biases towards using boundary or landmark cues during navigation. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 1-20. DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2014.977925

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17470218.2014.977925

The MazeSuite API allows interfacing any 3rd party application with MazeSuite for communication and control. Recently, we have posted a tutorial and necessary files for interfacing MazeSuite with the BCI2000 (www.bci2000.org) a popular Brain Computer Interface (BCI) platform.

Tutorial and details are posted in MazeSuite Gallery:
mazesuite.com/gallery/app/mazesuite-bci2000-interfacing/

This tutorial and information is based on the mechanism used in the following paper:
Curtin, A., Ayaz, H., Liu, Y., Shewokis, P. A., & Onaral, B. (2012). A P300-based EEG-BCI for spatial navigation control. In Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC), 2012 Annual International Conference of the IEEE (pp. 3841-3844). doi:10.1109/EMBC.2012.6346805.

Curtin, A., Ayaz, H, et al (2012)

A major update for MazeSuite is released. Summary list of changes are as follows. To get the update, download the latest setup file.

MazeSuite Release 2.4

Mazesuite API

New sample application with source code: MazeBridge

MazeWalker (v2.9.0.0)

Oculus DK1 integration
Updated to standardize lighting conditions
Resolution scaling is now DPI independent
Restored audio functionality for play/pause/stop as well as new feature for making volume louder when objects playing are approached.
Increased OpenGL requirement to version 3.0
Custom resolution option (default to 5760 x 1080)
Minor improvements

MazeMaker (v2.9.0.0)

New features in dynamic model properties related to audio playback
New splash screen during startup
New welcome screen for quick access
Minor improvements

MazeAnalyzer (v1.8.0.0)

New splash screen during startup
Minor improvements

MazeSuite has passed 1,000 downloads mark. Thank you all for your support.

Also, note that new content has been added to the Gallery.