Project Title: Reward-Dependant Motor-Cognition in Experimental Mice
BASIS Advisor: Ms. Das
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Week 9&10: Introduction to SLEAP and its Installation
Jun 04, 2022
Hello everyone, These past two weeks I’ve been engaging in a lot of back-and-forth emailing with Professor Kahn, my on-site advisor, to try and find the most efficient way to track animal positioning using MATLAB, the platform I’ve progressively learned to be more comfortable with throughout the past months. Professor Kahn mentioned that someone who […]
Week 8: Calculating Statistics on Matrices & Completing Section Project to Finish MATLAB Training
May 20, 2022
Hello everyone! This week I was introduced to working with matrices and moved on to perform statistical calculations on matrices. So far, I have been working a lot with tables, which have a collection of vectors grouped into one. However, not all data is based on vectors. In a matrix, each value had a […]
Week 7: Accessing Subsets of Data
May 13, 2022
Hello everyone, This week I went back to using the pizza data from before for practice in order to learn how to find subsets of data that match the condition I assign. Using this lesson (on the edx MATLAB Essentials course), I made three goals: Find cheese pizza popularity Find best time of the day […]
Week 6: Importing and Working with Tabular Data
May 10, 2022
Hello everyone! This week I continued making progress in MATLAB Essentials to learn, using tables with related vectors in a table that include numbers, text, dates, and time. As practice, I imported a file that comes with MATLAB and contains the tabular data of Lyme disease occurrences in New England. I learned how to create […]
Week 5: Learning New Statistical Visualization Methods and Mini Practice Project
May 02, 2022
Hello everybody! This week I learned different forms of visualizing data sets as well as how to analyze my plots. I did so through the edX course on MATLAB Essentials and the same pizza dataset I’ve previously used to practice. To start off, I learned how to plot a histogram, which would be very useful […]
Week 4: MATLAB Essentials Progress-Computing Vectors with Set Number of Elements
Apr 30, 2022
Hello everybody! This week I stuck to using the pizza data in order to practice computing sequential data and various types of statistical functions. To start off, I learned to use the “diff function” to compute sequential differences of pizza data. In other words, this function enables me to find the rate at which pizzas […]
Week 3: Exploring Data Visualization and Working with Numeric Data
Apr 29, 2022
Hi everyone! This week I continued learning applications of MATLAB programming to represent and analyze experimental data. As I’ve stated previously in my blog, I am using the edX course called MATLAB essentials. To simulate a situation in which I would be graphing a variety of changing values, I used the example of pizza data, […]
Week 2: An Introduction to the Kahn Lab Space
Apr 08, 2022
Hello everyone! This week I received an update from Itamar Kahn, my on-site mentor that I would be able to come to work in-person in his lab once every two weeks as opposed to only connecting remotely as I have done before due to COVID-19 restrictions. I would be guided by a graduate student in […]
Week 1: Learning and Applying MATLAB Commands for Video Trial Analysis
Apr 01, 2022
Hello there! Welcome back to my Senior Project blog! This week I focused on building the coding skills to effectively analyze the experimental trials throughout my research process. First, I initiated an edx course led by MathWorks content directors. The course is called MATLAB Essentials and I use it to learn and practice the essentials […]
Week 0: Introduction
Mar 18, 2022
Hello, welcome to my first Senior Project blog! My name is Daniela Shoham and I have attended BASIS since 7th grade. My senior project examines the conditioning process in which lab mice are trained to associate an external cue with a reward using a computational analysis of its movement patterns. By focusing on the mouse’s […]