Legacy Software for Davis Rig Brief Access Lickometer

Summary

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User-friendly software for computer control and data collection in Brief Access Lickometer studies.

• Ability to set tube presentation sequence
• Control presentation times, interstimulus intervals, maximum response latencies, etc.
• Ability to introduce rinse trials between presentation of tastants.
• Randomization of tube sequence presentation
• User-friendly interface helps keep track of each
  experiment using “project” files, which include identifying information such as trial number and group title.

Tube Presentation Sequence Maker

1. Tube Sequence:

“P” for “Presentation”, the following columns show the presentation number, then tube number.

2. Pre Rinse:

Place a rinse trial before each tastant presentation.

3. Bias Toward Equal Repeats:

Effect an overall bias in the TPS construction so each tube sequence is equally likely. A bias sensitivity of Lo, Med, or Hi can be selected.

4. Random Mix (Not in Blocks):

Completely randomize the tube presentations. When selected, the system will take the Total Presentations and randomize all presentations throughout the entire sequence. Otherwise, the sequence randomization is done block by block.

5. Types of Sequences:

Random: Initiate a random number generator algorithm. The seed of the random number generator is a high speed timer, and will result in a different (random) TPS every time.

Pseudo Random 1-4: Four different preset seed values are available for the random number generator. If all other TPS settings are the same, and a pseudo random sequence type is chosen, you will always get the same TPS. This can be useful if you want to get back to the same sequence at a later time without saving an additional TPS file.

 

SKU:   SOF-770