Black curve and datapoints: animal's weight over time. White diamond indicates the reference weight at the moment that a water restriction started (indicated in Alyx). Dashed lines show 85% and 75% of this reference weight, for each period in which the animal was water restricted. If the animal was taken off water restriction (e.g. got a bottle in its cage during holidays), a new water restriction with associated reference weigth and 85%/75% lines is shown.
Colored bars: cumulative water intake per day, colors indicate the type of water. 10% sucrose is the standard water type that's earned in the behavioral task, hydrogel is used for top-up during the week (if animals don't earn their required liquids in the task), and in weekends measured water or adlib water with 2% citric acid can be given.
For each day of the behavioral task (starting with trainingChoiceWorld), number of trials performed and duration of the session.
For each day of the behavioral task, performance (only on easy trials, i.e. 50% and 100% contrast) and median RT. We've observed that once the two 'cross over', i.e. median RT goes below accuracy, animals will become proficient at the task soon after.
For each day of the behavioral task (x-axis) and each contrast level (y-axis), the fraction of rightward choices. Ideal performance would be dark blue bars at the top half, and dark red bars at the bottom half. This plot is basically a flattened psychometric function into a heatmap, over days. You can see when additional, more difficult contrasts are introduced over training.