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P.A.R.T. Utilities

Useful documentation and files for working with P.A.R.T.

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Welcome to the home of PART and BGC Science, research applications developed by the Brain Game Center at Northeastern University under the direction of Dr. Aaron Seitz and Dr. Susanne Jaeggi.

These applications support a wide range of cognitive, auditory, and visual assessments and training protocols, including both traditional and gamified task designs. They are used in laboratory, clinical, educational, and remote research settings.

Applications

PART

PART (Portable Automated Rapid Testing) is the primary researcher-facing platform used to design, configure, prototype, and administer studies and training protocols.

PART supports:

Cognitive, auditory, and visual assessments
Training and intervention workflows
Gamified and traditional task designs
Flexible experiment configuration
Rapid prototyping of new paradigms
Cross-platform deployment

PART is commonly used by researchers and study designers during development, piloting, and controlled laboratory testing.

BGC Science

BGC Science is the participant-facing companion application for running studies created in PART.

BGC Science is designed for:

In-lab participant testing
Remote and at-home studies
Simplified participant workflows
Standardized study administration
Large-scale deployment of existing protocols

Studies created in PART are compatible with BGC Science, enabling streamlined deployment from study design to participant execution.

Release Channels

Production Releases

Production releases are the recommended builds for active studies and participant data collection. These releases prioritize stability, consistency, and long-term reproducibility. Task behavior changes and feature updates are introduced more conservatively.

Researchers conducting active studies should generally use Production releases unless otherwise coordinated with the Brain Game Center development team.

Next Releases

PART Next and BGC Next provide early access to upcoming features, task updates, bug fixes, hardware support, and workflow improvements currently under active development.

Next releases are updated more frequently and may include incomplete functionality or changes to task behavior as development progresses. While these builds are often suitable for day-to-day use, they are primarily intended for: