This accessible text walks behavioral science students and researchers through the process of programming using MATLAB. Each chapter opens with a list of objectives followed by new commands required to accomplish those goals. Chapters cover how to write clear programs followed by pointers for interacting with MATLAB, including its commands and how to read error messages, how to store and access data, how to design programs to create dialogs with users, how to carry out calculations, how to write a program as a stand-alone module, how to create animations and sounds, how to use MATLAB with...

Whenever you get dressed, carry objects, write, draw, or gesture, you express knowledge about how to get things done with your hands. Ironically, that knowledge is often difficult to express. Typically you can't say what you know. Still, it would be enormously useful to identify the knowledge underlying manual control. The design of equipment and transportation systems might better anticipate the abilities and limitations of users, and methods of teaching and rehabilitating skills might improve. This book, the first on the cognitive psychology of manual control, uncovers the hidden knowledge...