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Choosing the stages in which a procedure should run

In brief

You should use the list of stages on the procedure's settings page to select those stages in which you want the procedure to run. If you un-check a stage, then the procedure will not be run in any trials in that stage - it'll be like the procedure simply doesn't exist.

Details

In general, you will probably want ANY-maze to run a procedure in all the stages of an experiment - indeed, this is the default setting used by the system. However, there may be experiments in which the procedure is not required all the time.

For example, you might wish to shock the animal in some situation during a Training stage, but not during a Retention stage. In this case, you could un-check the Retention stage in the list of stages, for the procedure that administers the shock.

ANY-maze help topic T0457