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The ANY-maze Operant interfaces

Introduction

The ANY-maze Operant interfaces are designed to provide a straightforward way for ANY-maze to control the broad range of operant equipment available from Med Associates, Lafayette Instrument and Coulbourn Instruments.

Figure 1. The ANY-maze Operant interfaces, which provide a way for ANY-maze to interface to Med Associates, Lafayette Instrument and Coulbourn Instruments operant equipment.

Details

Standard operant components from the respective manufacturers, such as levers, lights, pellet dispensers, etc. can be plugged straight in to an ANY-maze Operant interface, which connects directly to the PC via USB. You can tell ANY-maze about the components you have connected using a user-friendly configuration window, and these components will then be automatically added into your protocol ready to use.

ANY-maze's procedures can then be used to define how you'd like the components to work in your tests.

ANY-maze supports running tests in multiple Operant cages simultaneously; Setup can be performed for all cages at once and the components will all be added to your protocol in one go.

Getting started with your ANY-maze Operant interface

To get up and running with your ANY-maze Operant interface, we recommend that you do the following:

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Use the relevant instructions to get your Operant interfaces setup:

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Setting up the ANY-maze Operant interface M

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Setting up the ANY-maze Operant interface C

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Setting up the ANY-maze Operant interface L

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Follow the step-by-step tutorial, which will take you through what you need to do to set up ANY-maze to work with your Operant cage and run a simple test.

You can also take a look at the example 'Operant conditioning experiment', which is available using the Open example experiment option on the File page. (This uses 'dummy' operant interfaces, but can show you a very simple experiment setup including a couple of procedures).

Full details about the ANY-maze Operant interface can be found in the following topics:

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The ANY-maze Operant interface M for connecting Med Associates equipment

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The ANY-maze Operant interface C for connecting Coulbourn Instruments equipment

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The ANY-maze Operant interface L for connecting Lafayette Instrument equipment

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Configuring an ANY-maze Operant interface

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Testing an ANY-maze Operant interface and the components connected to

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Creating an Operant protocol

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