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stimulus_presentation (ndi.document class)

Class definition

Class name: ndi_document_stimulus_stimulus_presentation
Short name: stimulus_presentation
Superclasses: ndi_document, ndi_document_epochid

Definition: $NDIDOCUMENTPATH/stimulus/stimulus_presentation.json
Schema for validation: $NDISCHEMAPATH/stimulus/stimulus_presentation_schema.json
Property_list_name: stimulus_presentation
Class_version: 1

stimulus_presentation fields

Accessed by stimulus_presentation.field where field is one of the field names below

field default_value data type description
depends_on - structure Each document that this document depends on is listed; its document ID is given by the value, and the name indicates the type of dependency that exists. Note that the index for each dependency in the list below is arbitrary and can change. Use ndi.document methods dependency, dependency_value,add_dependency_value_n,dependency_value_n,remove_dependency_value_n, and set_dependency_value to read and edit depends_on fields of an ndi.document.
depends_on: stimulus_element_id NDI document ID The ID of the element of the stimulator (usually the probe that provided the stimulation)
presentation_order - Integer array An array of the order of stimulus presentation (each stimulus has an integer ID)
presentation_time Structure with fields clocktype, stimopen, onset, offset, stimclose clocktype is the string describing the type of clock (from ndi.time.clocktime)
presentation_time.clocktype dev_local_clock character string (ASCII) matching types in ndi.time.clocktime The type of clock that is used to specify the time of the stimuli.
stimuli
stimuli.parameters

ndi_document fields

Accessed by ndi_document.field where field is one of the field names below

field default_value data type description
session_id - NDI ID string The globally unique identifier of any data session that produced this document
id - NDI ID string The globally unique identifier of this document
name character array (ASCII) A user-specified name, free for users/developers to use as they like
type character array (ASCII) A user-specified type, free for users/developers to use as they like (deprecated, will be removed)
datestamp (current time) ISO-8601 date string, time zone must be UTC leap seconds Time of document creation
database_version - character array (ASCII) Version of this document in the database

ndi_document_epochid fields

Accessed by epochid_fix.field where field is one of the field names below

field default_value data type description
epochid character array (ASCII) The epoch id that is referred to