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Reference Manual Version 17.5

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International headquarters Wageningen, The Netherlands Phone +31-317-473300 E-mail info@ noldus.nl Contents this manual - 7 why use trial and hardware control? - 7 conditions and actions - 8 trial control rules - 9 how trial control instructions are executed - 10 your ethovision license and trial control - 14 analysis of trial control data - 15 the components pane - 17 the trial control window - 19 maximum trial duration pane - 21 procedure - 23 conditions - 26 actions - 27 trial control variables - 28 external commands - 31 operators - 34 re-use trial control elements - 36 frequently-occurring cases - 38 test the trial control sequence - 42 apply trial control to your trials - 45 the default start-stop trial rule - 47 customize the start-stop trial rule - 49 examples of start-stop trial rules - 51 Contents use sub-rules - 55 create a sub-rule - 56 create a reference to a sub-rule - 57 sub-rule start conditions - 60 sub-rule stop conditions - 61 place the sub-rule reference in the trial control sequence - 63 end a sub-rule - 63 call a sub-rule from another sub-rule - 65 conditions based on time - 67 conditions based on a time interval - 69 conditions based on a trial control variable - 71 conditions based on a dependent variable - 72 subjects in a condition - 75 when is a condition met? - 76 conditions based on behaviors scored manually - 78 conditions based on hardware devices - 79

More about conditions based on dependent

distance moved - 84 velocity - 84 movement - 85 acceleration - 86 in zone - 86 distance to zone - 88 distance to point - 88 meander - 89 target visits and errors - 89 zone alternation - 90 zone transition - 90 heading - 91 heading to point - 91 head direction - 92 head directed to zone - 92 turn angle - 93 angular velocity - 94 activity - 94 body elongation - 95 body elongation state - 95 body angle - 96 body angle state - 96 Contents mobility - 97 mobility state - 97 rotation - 98 javascript variables - 98 distance between subjects - 99 proximity - 99 body contact - 100 relative movement - 100 net weighted movement - 100 weighted movement from - 101 weighted movement to - 101 conditions based on multiple dependent variables - 101 devices supported in ethovision xt - 104 work with multiple devices - 106 connect the hardware devices - 107 set the port connections - 109 assign devices to arenas - 113 test the hardware devices - 115 program trial control with hardware devices - 117 the usb-io box - 120 install the usb-io box - 124 connect the usb-io box to devices - 128 use multiple usb-io boxes - 131 test the usb-io box - 132 jumper and dip switch settings - 133 configure ethovision xt - 136 the mini usb-io box - 137 the ttl port tester - 144 the optical isolated ttl-io interface - 151 technical specifications - 153 user-defined device types - 155 in a nutshell - 155 define a new device type - 157 sample file - 158 predefined ids - 162 xml file entries - 163 Contents what do you want to do? - 168 trial control events - 170 trial control states - 172 data within trial control states - 177 trial control variables - 178 hardware command - 178 hardware continuous variable - 179 hardware state variable - 181 free intervals based on trial control and hardware data - 184 the analysis results - 184 export trial control data - 185 introduction - 188 simple case: two arenas - 191 advanced case: six arenas - 196

Source: EthoVision XT 17 - Trial and Hardware Control Reference Manual