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EthoVision XT 18 - THC - Trial and Hardware Control - Index (Continued)

Last updated: Jul 30, 2026

Index (Continued)

M

  • Makes Sub-Rule Inactive
  • Manual Event Recording – TTL Tester
  • Manually-Scored Behaviors
  • Maximum
    • Value of trial control variable
    • Trial duration
    • Multiple arenas
  • Maximum Trial Duration Pane – Showing/hiding
  • Mean
    • Acceleration condition
    • Activity condition
    • Body angle condition
    • Body elongation condition
    • Defining conditions
    • Distance moved condition
    • Distance to point condition
    • Distance to zone condition
    • Head direction condition
    • Heading condition
    • Heading to point condition
    • Meander condition
    • Mobility condition
    • Turn angle condition
    • Velocity condition
  • Meander
    • Absolute
    • Condition based on
    • Relative
  • Media Recorder – Running external command actions
  • Mini USB-IO Box
  • Minimum
    • Value of trial control variable
  • Missing Samples
  • Mobility
    • Condition based on
  • Mobility State
    • Condition based on
  • Morris Water Maze – See Water Maze
  • Multi Condition – Condition based on
  • Multiple Arenas
    • Maximum trial duration
    • Open field
    • Trial control
  • Multiple Instances of an Action
  • Multiple USB-IO Boxes

N

  • N of All
    • Logic
    • Operator
  • Nesting
    • Over subjects
    • Over trial control states
  • Net Weighted Movement – Condition based on
  • NeuroBsik
  • NeuroBsik Top Unit – Condition based on
  • No Valid Reference
  • Number of Button Presses
  • Number of Drops – Pellet dispenser condition
  • Number of Licks – Lickometer conditions

O

  • Open Field
  • Operators
    • All
    • Any
    • N of All
    • Re-using
    • With one input box
  • Optical Isolated TTL-IO Interface
  • Optogenetics Setup
  • OR Logic
  • Outliers
    • Effect on distance moved condition
    • Effect on velocity condition
  • Output 1/2 High? – Custom hardware device condition

P

  • Pellet – Dropping
  • Pellet Dispenser
    • Calculating statistics
    • Condition based on
    • Controlling
    • Testing
  • Pellet Receptacle
  • Permutation
  • PhenoTyper
  • PhenoTyper Top Unit
    • Condition based on
    • Controlling hardware devices
    • NeuroBsik
    • Standard
    • Testing
  • PhenoTypers
    • Assigning arenas
    • Connecting
  • PhenoWheel
  • Physical Device
  • Pixel Change
  • Platform – Water maze
  • Playing a Sound
  • Port Connections
    • Hardware devices
    • PhenoTyper
  • Profiles – Trial control settings
  • Programming Trial Control – Hardware devices
  • Proximity – Condition based on
  • Pseudorandom Sequence

Q

  • Quarter Cycles – Activity wheel counter condition

R

  • Radial Maze – Stopping the trial
  • Random Time
  • Random Value – Trial control variables
  • Receivers
    • Distance between subjects condition
    • In conditions
    • Net weighted movement condition
    • Proximity condition
    • Relative movement condition
    • Weighted movement from condition
    • Weighted movement to
  • Recording Video
    • Applying trial control
  • Redo a Trial
    • Applying trial control
    • Hardware log
  • Re-Doing a Trial
  • Reference Box
  • Reference to a Sub-Rule
    • Creating
    • Modifying
    • Multiple references
    • Place in trial control sequence
    • Re-using
  • References
  • Relative Angular Velocity Condition
  • Relative Meander Condition
  • Relative Movement – Condition based on
  • Relative Turn Angle Condition
  • Remove Device
  • Repeat Indefinitely – Sub-rule stop condition
  • Repeat Per Start Condition – Sub-rule stop condition
  • Repeating Sub-Rules – Options
  • Re-Using
    • Operators
    • Sub-rules
    • Trial control elements
  • Rewards
    • Action leads to
    • After a time
    • Calculate number of
    • Conditioning test
    • Specify number of
  • Rotation – Condition based on
  • Rule – See Trial Control Rule

S

  • Sample Rate – Effect on analysis
  • Sample Time
  • SDI Port – Connecting
  • Selecting
    • Statistics in conditions
    • Subjects in conditions
  • Sending a String
  • Sequence – Of conditions and actions
  • Serial Interface
  • Serial Ports
  • Show Grid – Trial control window
  • Show/Hide
    • Components pane
    • Maximum trial duration pane
  • Signal to Check
    • Hardware device conditions
    • PhenoTyper top unit conditions
  • Signal Value – Hardware device conditions
  • Snap to Grid – Trial control boxes
  • Social Interactions – Defining a condition
  • Sound File
  • Standard Deviation – Defining a condition
  • Standard Error – Defining a condition
  • Start-Stop Trial Rule
    • Customizing
    • Default
    • Default one
    • Examples
  • State Intervals
    • Analyzing
    • Analyzing data within intervals
  • Statistics – Condition based on dependent variable
  • Stimulus Presentation
  • Stop Condition of Sub-Rule
  • Stopping a Sub-Rule
  • Stopping a Trial
  • Subjects – Condition based on dependent variables
  • Subroutines – See Sub-Rules
  • Sub-Rule
    • Begin box
    • Defining
    • End box
    • Repeating
  • Sub-Rules
    • Calling from another sub-rule
    • Creating
    • Deleting
    • Ending
    • Examples
    • Reference to
    • Repeating
    • Re-using
    • Stop conditions
    • Why use
  • Summertime

T

  • Target Visiting and Errors – Condition based on
  • TC-Variable – See Trial Control Variable
  • Template Experiment
  • Terminate Ongoing Repeat – Sub-rule start condition
  • Testing
    • External command
    • Hardware devices
    • Trial control sequence
  • Threshold (Zone Exit)
  • Time
    • Starting data recording
    • Stopping data recording
    • Time condition
    • Time interval condition
  • Time Condition – When tracking from video files
  • Time Interval – Condition based on
  • T-Maze
  • Top Unit – See PhenoTyper Top Unit
  • Total
    • Activity condition
    • Body angle condition
    • Body angle state condition
    • Body elongation condition
    • Defining conditions
    • Distance moved condition
    • Distance to point condition
    • Distance to zone condition
    • Meander condition
    • Turn angle condition
  • Track – vs. Trial
  • Track Data – Exporting
  • Tracking from Video Files
  • Trial – vs. Track
  • Trial and Hardware Control – Version of EthoVision XT
  • Trial Control
    • Analysis
    • Applying to multiple arenas
    • Applying to trials
    • Data analysis
    • Endless loop prevention
    • Exporting data
    • How are instructions executed
    • How it works
    • In multiple arenas
    • Programming
    • Programming hardware devices
    • Re-doing a trial
    • Rules
    • Screen
    • Start-stop rule
    • Sub-rule
    • Testing
    • Tracking from video files
    • Visualizing
    • Why use
  • Trial Control Boxes – Snap to grid
  • Trial Control Rules – For starting/stopping trials
  • Trial Control Settings
    • Exporting as image
    • Locked
  • Trial Control Variable
    • Condition based on
    • Start condition
  • Trial Control Variables
    • Actions on
    • Analyzing
    • Defining
    • Maximum value
    • Minimum value
    • Random value
    • Using
  • Trial Control Window
    • Zoom in/out
    • Zoom to fit
  • Trial Duration – Maximum
  • Trial vs. Track
  • TTL
    • Simulation
    • Testing USB-IO box
  • TTL Port – Connecting
  • TTL Port Tester
    • Condition based on
    • Testing
  • TTL Tester
    • Manual event recording
    • Technical specifications
    • Trigger an action
  • TTL to 28V Interface
  • TTL-IO Isolator

Source: EthoVision XT 18 - THC - Trial and Hardware Control, Noldus Information Technology

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