Rodent continous performance test (rCPT) written in python2.7

The task use a Windows tablet and a 3D-printed operant chamber. Stimuli presentation is controlled by PsychoPy. Rodents respond by capacitance touch detected via the CapSense library and processed by pySerial.

The rCPT program mirrors and extends the functionality of VisualBasic version and commercial Lafayette version of the task used in these papers: [Chi Hun et al. 2015], [Mar et al. 2017], [Hvoslef-Eide et al 2018], [Nilsson et al. 2018].

The PsychoPy version supports distractors and stimuli fading.

Generate different contrast stimuli.

Set the test parameters for each box through ConfigParser and executed on set of tablets through PsExec.

Monitor live peformance of animals across multiple boxes on a PC, OS, or RaspberryPi using tabulate printed terminal window.

CLI access to descriptive and frequentist statistics for blocks of days and multiple animals.

gif demo starting up rCPT locally, on one windows tablet.

gif demo extracting descriptive statistics for a block of days, running CLI to access SQL database.