Goal

In the water maze, the animal must learn to find a hidden or flagged platform it can sit on. In the Barnes maze, the goal is an escape tunnel connected to one of the peripheral holes. Wintrack treats the goal as a particular field inside the arena. As such it can be displayed in the case window along with the animal's path and can be referred to during data analysis. The size, shape and allowed positions of the goal are specified using the Arena Properties command. The case document itself contains information telling Wintrack which of the allowed positions has been selected for each individual trial. As an alternative, the goal can also be defined using a custom setup file.