# Scoring behaviors manually

Aim

▪To record rodent behaviors that cannot be detected automatically with the Rat and Mouse Behavior Recognition; for example, pouncing or fighting.

▪To record behaviors in animals other than rodents; for example, thrashing in fish.

note You can also score behaviors after acquisition, for example to correct scoring errors and add data. See Score behaviors manually after acquisition

Procedure

1. Define the behaviors that you want to record manually.

2. optional Score behaviors manually during acquisition.

You score behaviors and events by pressing a predefined key or clicking an appropriate button on the screen as soon as the behavior or event occurs. Score behaviors manually after acquisition.

note This is only possible when you have tracked from a video file, or you tracked live and saved video.

Notes

▪Manual scoring settings are not available in a DanioVision experiment.

▪Manually-scored behaviors are stored in a special Manual scoring log associated with the track data.

▪If you record video and track later, you can only record events when you do tracking, not during video recording.

▪If you are familiar with The Observer XT software, the manual scoring settings in EthoVision XT is a simplified The Observer XT coding scheme. You can export the scored behaviors to The Observer XT for further analysis. See Export manually-scored behaviors

▪With the Rat (or Mouse) Behavior Recognition module, EthoVision XT can detect a set of rodent behaviors automatically. See More about Experiment Settings