# Nesting over behaviors scored manually

Aim

To can pick out the track segments in which a behavior was scored manually. To learn more about manually scoring behaviors, see Manual scoring settings and Score behaviors manually during acquisition.

example You manually scored freezing behavior, and you want to visualize where in the arena it occurred during the trial. First, nest over the manually-scored behavior Freezing (see below for the procedure), then create the heatmaps.

Nesting vs. Nesting over Subjects

Notice the difference when there are multiple subjects in the same arena:

▪To select data of a subject based on the behavior of that subject, choose that behavior under Nesting. See the procedure below.

▪To select data of a subject based on the behavior of other subjects, choose that behavior under Nesting over Subjects. There you find the Actors tab where you can specify which subject (Actor) was performing that behavior. See Nesting over subjects

Procedure

1.In the Data Profile, under Nesting click the button next to the behavior’s name, or the group of behaviors it belongs to.

2.In the window that appears, select the behavior and click OK.

If you want to analyze the track segments in which the behavior was not active, select Not [behavior name].

3.Click OK. Proceed with step 4 in How to select track segments.

Notes

▪If the behavior is part of a mutually-exclusive group, under Nesting you see the name of the group, not the individual behavior.

▪If you select a behavior from a mutually-exclusive group, the other behaviors of the same group are automatically left out of analysis and visualization.