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Daan and I have beent thinking a bit about naming conventions for what now is called exp_config.cf and default_settings.json.

First of all, let's nail down what it is:

• exp_config.cfg is meant for settings that could be shared by different experiments. For example, distance to the screen, resolution, or the trigger key of the scanner. Therefore, it should in principle be overloadable: there could be exptools-default, system-wide, user-wide, and experiment-wide settings, in increasing order of priortity. It works via the config-module of Python, which is very suitable for this kind of stuff (overloading, etc.).
• default_settings.json is only meant for settings that are specific to a particular experiment. For example, the number of dots during an RDM, or the inter-stimulus intervals in random checker board presentations. This stuff is stored in a json, since it's a bit more widely applicable and easily imported in e.g., pandas, or even a web application.

We think the current naming conventions of these files are not really reflecting what they are supposed to do. Any ideas for better naming conventions? We came up with the following:

exp_config.cfg

• apparatus.cfg

default_settings.json

• experiment_settings.json

Any other ideas?