mt_exclude_initiation: Exclude initial phase without mouse movement.

Description

Exclude the initial phase in a trial where the mouse was not moved. The corresponding samples (x- and y-positions and timestamps) in the trajectory data will be removed.

Usage

mt_exclude_initiation(data, use = "trajectories", save_as = use, reset_timestamps = TRUE, show_progress = TRUE)

Arguments

data

a mousetrap data object created using one of the mt_import functions (see mt_example for details). Alternatively, a trajectory array can be provided directly (in this case use will be ignored).

use

a character string specifying which trajectory data should be used.

save_as

a character string specifying where the resulting trajectory data should be stored.

reset_timestamps

logical indicating whether the timestamps should be reset after removing the initial phase without movement (see Details).

show_progress

logical indicating whether function should report on its progress.

Value

A mousetrap data object (see mt_example) from which the initial phase without mouse movement was removed. If the trajectory array was provided directly as data, only the trajectory array will be returned.

Details

mt_exclude_initiation removes all samples (x- and y-positions as well as timestamps) at the beginning of the trial during which the mouse was not moved from its initial position. The last unchanged sample is retained in the data.

If reset_timestamps == TRUE (the default), it subtracts the last timestamp before a movement occurs from all timestamps , so that the series of timestamps once more begin with zero. If the argument is set to FALSE, the values of the timestamps are unchanged.

Please note that resetting the timestamps will result in changes in several mouse-tracking measures, notably those which report timestamps (e.g., MAD_time). Typically, however, these changes are desired when using this function.

Examples

Run this code

mt_example <- mt_exclude_initiation(mt_example,
  save_as="mod_trajectories")