Glossary#

This glossary provides definitions for terms used throughout the project documentation.

Aeon#: A very long, indefinite period of time. [1]
Session#: For experiment 0.1, the event over the time period when an animal is placed in the nesting cage until the time the animal is removed from the nesting cage.
Trial#: For experiment 0.1, the event over the time period when an animal starts moving the wheel on a patch until the time a pellet is delivered. Every experiment 0.1 session ends on incompleted trials.
Acquisition Epoch#: The event over the time period when the acquistion computer is on and acquiring data until it is stopped. For experiment 0.1 there are multiple acquisition runs due to Bonsai/Windows being restarted.
Acquisition Chunk Duration#: The time duration over which datastream files are written out. For experiment 0.1, datastreams were written out in files of 1 hour chunk durations.
Acquisition Chunk#: The event (i.e. all data) over a particular acquisition chunk duration.
Acquisition Slice Duration#: The minimum time resolution a user can get from an initial query of a Datajoint table (the timebin size of BLOB and QC data stored in Datajoint tables). For experiment 0.1 this was 10 minutes.
Acquisition Slice#: The event (i.e. all data) over a particular acquisition slice duration.
Task Protocol#: An integer number and associated string describing a unique behavioral task run in Project Aeon. For experiment 0.1, there were 8 unique behavioral tasks run.