Rigbox
In a recent preprint, Jai Bhagat, Miles J. Wells and colleagues shared a toolbox, developed by Christopher Burgess, for streamlining behavioral neuroscience experiments.
In behavioral neuroscience, it’s important to keep track of both behavioral data and neural data, and have it done so in a way that makes analysis simpler later on. One of the best ways to achieve this is by having a centralized system for running behavioral and neural recording software while streaming all the data. To address this, Burgess and team developed Rigbox, a high-performance, open-source software toolbox that facilitates a modular approach to designing experiments. Rigbox runs in MATLAB (with some Java and C for network communication and processing speed improvements), and its main submodule, Signals, allows intuitive programming of behavioral tasks. While it was originally developed for behavioral analysis from mice in a steering wheel driven task, the authors show its feasibility for human behavioral tasks (psychophysics & pong game), highlighting the broad array of ways this toolbox can be used in neuroscience.
This research tool was created by your colleagues. Please acknowledge the Principal Investigator, cite the article in which the tool was described, and include an RRID in the Materials and Methods of your future publications. Project portal RRID:SCR_021444; Software RRID:SCR_021517
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