ArUco (“Augmented Reality University of Cordoba”) Markers were developed by Thomas Smith and Trevor Smith in a joint effort with collaborators from the University of Texas at Dallas, West Virginia University, and Case Western Reserve University. These...
Understanding how we make decisions is a core challenge in cognitive science. Sequential Sampling Models (SSMs) offer a powerful way to analyze this process by modeling how we accumulate evidence before making a choice. A new Python toolbox called HSSM (for...
Spatial cognition paradigms in animal models tend to focus on allocentric means of navigation where animals rely on environmental landmarks. There is a need for spatial cognition paradigms that also take egocentric navigation into account, where an animal’s own point...
Jared Armshaw and Grayson Butcher, from April Becker’s Neuroplasticity and Repertoire Recovery Lab at the University of North Texas, recently shared their open-source apparatus with us. Behavioral testing of rats usually involves removing individual animals from group...
The reach-to-grasp task is commonly used to study fine motor behavior in mice because of the translatability of the movement’s neurocircuitry to humans and non-human primates. Daniil Berezhnoi and colleagues have developed ReachOut, a project that includes all of the...
