title: Maze Suite 1.0: a complete set of tools to prepare, present, and analyze navigational and spatial cognitive neuroscience experiments.
abstract: Maze Suite is a complete set of tools that enables researchers to perform spatial and navigational behavioral experiments within interactive, easy-to-create, and extendable (e.g., multiple rooms) 3-D virtual environments. Maze Suite can be used to design and edit adapted 3-D environments, as well as to track subjects' behavioral performance. Maze Suite consists of three main applications: an editing program for constructing maze environments (MazeMaker), a visualization/rendering module (MazeWalker), and an analysis and mapping tool (MazeViewer). Each of these tools is run and used from a graphical user interface, thus making editing, execution, and analysis user friendly. MazeMaker is a .NET architecture application that can easily be used to create new 3-D environments and to edit objects (e.g., geometric shapes, pictures, landscapes, etc.) or add them to the environment effortlessly. In addition, Maze Suite has the capability of sending signal-out pulses to physiological recording devices, using standard computer ports. Maze Suite, with all three applications, is a unique and complete toolset for researchers who want to easily and rapidly deploy interactive 3-D environments.
authors.affiliation: School of Biomedical Engineering, Science, and Health Systems, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA. hasan.ayaz@gmail.com
authors.forename: Hasan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ayaz
authors.forename: Sarah L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Allen
authors.forename: Steven M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Platek
authors.forename: Banu
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Onaral
mesh_terms: D019336:Cognitive Science / Q000295:instrumentation*; D003196:Computer Graphics; D006801:Humans; D018782:Maze Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008838:Microcomputers; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology*; D012984:Software; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*