Watermaze™ for Windows file format

Watermaze™ file structure...

Watermaze™ for Windows data files contain path data of several trials, of one or many animals. Wintrack imports Watermaze™ for Windows data files assuming that they store all trials of a single animal, recorded at a sampling rate of 10/s. The expected file extension is .WMD. No event data can be read from this format. General information about an experiment, such as the position of the goal platform, is stored independently of trial data in an Watermaze™ for Windows experiment file. The expected file extension for experiment files is .WME or .WMU. For details on Watermaze™ for Windows and its file formats please contact the following address:

Prof. Richard G. M. Morris, Ian Brockbank and Roger Spooner
Watermaze Software
30 South Oswald Rd, Edinburgh EH9 2HG, UK.
(44) (131) 650 4579 fax

Reading Watermaze™ data...

The Open Case Document command recognizes Watermaze™ for Windows data files automatically. Wintrack assumes that the trials were recorded with a sampling interval of 0.1s, but allows you to specify a new sampling interval to resample data during import. You can also specify an averaging frame for smoothing of the imported data. In order to import goal position information from Watermaze™ for Windows experiments, Wintrack needs access to the appropriate Watermaze™ for Windows experiment file. You will be asked to specify the name and location of that file. Finally, because Watermaze™ for Windows is not aware of case properties, Wintrack may automatically activate the Case Properties command after loading a Watermaze™ for Windows data file so you can specify case properties manually. On this occasion, you may also specify a setup version if you plan to work with custom setup files.

Additional information...

• For an overview of Wintrack documents and files see Wintrack documents and files.
• For more information on case documents read Inside case documents.