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Orientation and movement

Introduction

ANY-maze can determine when an animal is oriented towards (i.e. facing) a zone or point, and when it is moving towards (or away from) a zone or point.

These options may seem similar, but actually they are subtly different. Consider a situation in which you are walking down a street and looking into a shop window on your left. ANY-maze would consider that you are oriented towards the shop (because you are facing it) but that you are moving down the street, as that's the direction in which you are travelling.

The options on the Orientation and movement page of the protocol are used to specify whether ANY-maze should analyse the orientation and/or movement of the animal, and to fine-tune exactly how it does it.

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