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Specifying the width of a zone's Whishaw's Corridor

What is Whishaw's Corridor

Whishaw's Corridor is effectively a rectangular 'zone' of a specific width that runs from the animal's start position in a test to the centre of a zone - usually the escape platform in a water-maze (see figure 1, below). ANY-maze can report measures of the time and distance travelled in this 'corridor zone'.

Figure 1. Example of Whishaw's Corridor in a water-maze. The corridor is centred on a line (shown in red) running from the animal's start position to the centre of the platform zone. The corridor itself (shown in blue) has a width specified in the protocol.

Creating a Whishaw's Corridor

Any zone can have a Whishaw's Corridor associated with it simply by specifying in the zone's settings that you want the zone to include a Whishaw's corridor and then entering the corridor width.

For example, specifying '20cm' will create a corridor that's 20cm wide - i.e. 10cm to one side of the line from the animal's start position to the centre of the zone and 10cm to the other side.

The width you enter should include units of m (metres), cm (centimetres) or mm (millimetres) and can include a decimal point, for example 0.1m or 10cm.

Limits

You can't set up a Whishaw's corridor for a hidden zone, or for a zone whose entry setting is 'Consider the animal to be in this zone if it's not in any other zone'.

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