Animal Strategies

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The 8 animal strategies that are defined are common among rats. Although Morris Water Maze experiments may include other animals suck as mice. In addition more animal strategies are likely to appear beyond the 8 defined.

Future work:
The user should have the option to define custom made labels.

Suggestion:
The software may have some common labels per animal stored.

The users should have the ability to add their own features and labels apart from using the default ones.

Up to and including version 1.1.0:
Default Labels for rats (more info: tags_list.m):

• Undefined (special case)
• Thigmotaxis
• Incursion
• Scanning
• Focused Search
• Chaining Response
• Self Orienting
• Scanning Surroundings
• Target Scanning
• Direct Finding (not implemented yet)
• Approaching Target (not implemented yet)

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Update: Implemented, will be available after testing.

Below is a picture of the proposed GUI. Location: main GUI menu bar, Options-->Strategies Configurations.

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In the GUI above there will be one more column 'Shortcuts' where the user will specify a shortcut key for each strategy.

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Version 4+ has the option of changing the default strategies. However new strategies (more than 10) cannot be added and existing ones cannot be removed. In case the user does not wish to use a strategy then no labels of this category should be provided on the labelling stage.