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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by charles.michelich[/i] [br]CIGAL Users, I few people have asked me about the outputs of CIGAL recently, so I would like to start a thread on this topic for current and future investigators to reference. showplay (the CIGAL program we typically use to present function stimuli) creates two output files for each run. The [blue]show*.out[/blue] file stores the behavioral data in a format from an older program called "showtime" written by Francis Favorini. The [blue]pdigm*[/blue] file stores the behavioral data in a format Jim Voyvodic created called DMDATA. This file contains much more information that the show*.out files. The [blue]show*.out[/blue] file is a plain text file with several columns of numbers. I am not sure what all of the columns represent so perhaps someone else can describe it here. The [blue]pdigm*[/blue] file is a binary file with a text header. The data are organized into records where each record can contain n-dimensional data (including text). The records can be identified by either a record type or the order that the record appears in the file. Each record also has a text description. Data from the [blue]pdigm*[/blue] files can be accessed either directly or through a BXH header. Data can be accessed directly using Jim Voyvodic's suite of tools (e.g. CIGAL, fscan, dmread, dmwrite). dmread and dmwrite are command line tools available in [url]\\Gall\Programs\Tools\[/url]. If you would like to access the data through a BXH header, you can create the header using Jim's tools or the MATLAB function [green]dmdata2bxh[/green]. These tools map each record to a BXH "type" and "subtype" that can be used to uniquely identify the records within the BXH file. Once a BXH header has been created, you can read the data in MATLAB using the [green]readbxhdata[/green] function. The data can then be analyzed directly in MATLAB or sent to Excel for further analysis. See forum post [url]http://www.biac.duke.edu/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=213[/url] for more information on [green]dmdata2bxh[/green]. This is by no means a comprehensive description of these outputs, so if other you have information that you would like to share or correction to what I have stated, please add to this topic. Enjoy, Chuck [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.