Patent ID: 8484143

Claim:
A system for analyzing exploratory behavior of one or more subjects comprising: (a) a tracking device configured to track motion of the subject and to generate a signal indicative of the subject's motion; and (b) a CPU configured to (i) identify in the signal one or more sequences of repeated motions, or one or more sequences of sequences of repeated motion, wherein a motion is a time dependent change of a variable of one or more of the subjects starting from a reference value and terminating with the same reference value; (ii) for each of the one or more sequences of identified repeated motions: (a) determine for each occurrence of the repeated motion one or both of a clock time t at which the occurrence occurred or a clock time interval during which the occurrence occurred; (b) calculate for each occurrence of the repeated motion a value of one or more predetermined parameters each parameter value being indicative of a single occurrence of the motion; and (c) calculate a time dependence of the one or more predetermined parameters during the sequence of repeated motion or the sequence of sequences of repeated motion.