Maze Suite 1.0: a complete set of tools to prepare, present, and analyze navigational and spatial cognitive neuroscience experiments.

Full Abstract

Maze Suite is a complete set of tools that enables researchers to perform spatial and navigational behavioral experiments within interactive, easy-to-create, and extendable (e.g., multiple rooms) 3-D virtual environments. Maze Suite can be used to design and edit adapted 3-D environments, as well as to track subjects' behavioral performance. Maze Suite consists of three main applications:
an editing program for constructing maze environments (MazeMaker), a visualization/rendering module (MazeWalker), and an analysis and mapping tool (MazeViewer). Each of these tools is run and used from a graphical user interface, thus making editing, execution, and analysis user friendly. MazeMaker is a .NET architecture application that can easily be used to create new 3-D environments and to edit objects (e.g., geometric shapes, pictures, landscapes, etc.) or add them to the environment effortlessly. In addition, Maze Suite has the capability of sending signal-out pulses to physiological recording devices, using standard computer ports. Maze Suite, with all three applications, is a unique and complete toolset for researchers who want to easily and rapidly deploy interactive 3-D environments.

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Author information

Author/s: Ayaz, Hasan (H); Allen, Sarah L (SL); Platek, Steven M (SM); Onaral, Banu (B);

Affiliation: School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. hasan.ayaz(-atsign-)gmail.com

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Behavior research methods (Behav Res Methods), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2008-Feb; vol 40 (issue 1) : pp 353-9

Dates: Created 2008/04/16; Completed 2008/05/13;

PMID: 18411560, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)

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MeSH headings (categories)

This article was linked to the MESH Headings shown below.

Cognitive Science - instrumentation
Computer Graphics
Humans
Maze Learning - physiology

Microcomputers
Orientation - physiology
Software
Space Perception - physiology

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