Create second trial with only stimulus

[stumpychloe]

Background:

Currently the protocol only one experiment is taking place in the first three ports of the board with light stimulus and rewards.

Goal:

Mirror the same experiment but on the last three ports of the board. The change in the second experiment is that there will only be a stimulus displayed with no reward. Additionally the two experiments will run simultaneous when checked off in the parameters window.

[stumpychloe]

The first task of this issue is to determine where in the state matrix is it determined which PWM will be turned on.

[stumpychloe]

In the file state_matrix the definition add_state is responsible deciding what action will occur based of the data. For stimulus delivery I manual imputed the LED port under output_actions ex: PWM8. When this was done LED 8 was light up instead of one of the original three ports.

When the deliver_stimlus is printed it spits out DIV STIM = [('PWM1', 0.0), ('PWM3', 64.0)]", '']

[stumpychloe]

The port number is calculated by This calculation makes the left port 1, center 2, and right 3. to change the calculations the ports_lmr_air value will have to change. Currently its set at 123568 when I changed it to 678000 it cant run and spits out the error.

['stderr', '2024-05-16 12:21:49.822370', '', 'Not enough liquid calibration measurements exist for valve 6. Bpod needs at least 3 measurements.', '', '']

This error occurs only for the reward valve which isn't needed for the second experiment. So I think if I disable the valve for the second experiment it could run in the other ports.

[stumpychloe]

by updating the no_stimulus section so that the left and right ports are coordinated to ports 6 and 8. When the experiment is conducted ports 6 and 8 reflect whats happening to the left and right ports in the first experiment but only the LEDs light up.

[stumpychloe]

To implement the center port for when the experiment type is no stimulus I wrote this code.

My next goal is to make a option in the GUI task parameters for there to not be a second experiment type.

[stumpychloe]

I went in and changed the experiment type to a new name of no_light and implemented into GUI additionally I changed the experiment type no stimulus back to its formal function. A small bug I found was that when the no-light experiment is taking place the center port does not stay lit up for the first choice compare to in the first experiment.

Goals:

• Fix the center port timing in the no_light experiment
• find where the data is stored from each experiment
• get the data form no_light to store with the rest

[stumpychloe]

It seems that the data from the no_light experiment is stored the same as the other experiments. Additionally I made it so that when the no_light experiment is primary it will run through the first three ports. I still need to fix the timing of the center port when no_light is the secondary experiment.