Behavioral trials not yet supported about cellexplorer

[petersenpeter]

Hi Jialiang

It is implemented, but I am not sure that the example dataset has processed behavior data included. If the data is not in the cell metrics/spikes struct, the plot will be empty. You can learn more about the plot here: https://cellexplorer.org/tutorials/plotting-spike-data/

[Jialiang-Lu]

Thank you for your reply!

Yes the cell_metrics in the example dataset doesn't contain any trail-related info in it. There is basename.trials.behavior.mat in the folder containing trial infos, but ProcessCellMetrics.m is not loading this file. The lines

CellExplorer/ProcessCellMetrics.m

Lines 1267 to 1271 in c1c1e0f

	%% % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % %
	% Behavior metrics
	% % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % % %

seem to be where it should be loaded, but it's empty (correct me if I misunderstood it). When analyzing my own data, I prepared the .trials.behavior.mat following the definitions of the data structure. Similarly, this file doesn't seem to be loaded anywhere in the pipeline. Only Neuroscope2 is trying to access it. Could you please explain how to incorporate trial-triggered activity cell_metrics such that CellExplorer can correct plot it?

[petersenpeter]

Hi
Please check this tutorial on the subject: https://cellexplorer.org/tutorials/behavior-tutorial/
It is true that it can be improved...

[petersenpeter]

You also want to check out the tutorial on raster plots: https://cellexplorer.org/tutorials/plotting-spike-data/