Welcome
Neuroscience Needs Makers
This training course will introduce you to the basic concepts of data acquisition and behavioural control using the Bonsai visual programming language.
Course Schedule
| Thursday 5th | Friday 6th | Saturday 7th | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture | Introduction to Bonsai | Higher Order Operators | Computer Graphics |
| Workshop | Acquisition and Tracking | State Machines | Final Projects |
Day 1 - Introduction to Bonsai
- What is visual reactive programming?
- Learning your way around the Bonsai IDE
- Marble diagrams and how to read them
- How to measure and control almost anything with Bonsai
- Real-time tracking of colored objects, moving objects and contrasting objects
- Measuring behavior using voltages and a Raspberry Pi Pico device
- Data synchronization and measuring closed-loop latency
Tutorial: acquisition and tracking, data synchronization
Day 2 - Closed-loop and Operant Behavior Experiments
- Sharing observable sequences
- Creating dynamic observable sequences with higher-order operators
- Conditional effects: triggering a stimulus based on video activity
- Continuous feedback: modulate stimulus intensity with speed or distance
- Choice, timeouts and conditional logic: building reaction time and Go/No-Go tasks
- Best practices for composing complex workflows
Tutorial: closed-loop systems, state-machines for operant tasks
Day 3 - Reproducible research practices
- Building closed-loop virtual reality experiments with BonVision.
- Reproducible deployment and versioning of experiments
- Bonsai hackathon
Tutorial: visual environments, final projects