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...
Researchers at the Bernardo Houssay Institute of Physiology and Biophysics, led by Esteban Valverde, have developed an open-source holeboard for studying rodent behavior. Holeboards are a widely used tool in neuroscience for assessing exploration, anxiety, and spatial...
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...
Danny Lam and colleagues out of the Shoffstall Lab at Case Western Reserve University published their open source tool, a 3D-printed Hindlimb Stabilization Apparatus, in eLife in December 2023. Motor function evaluation is a necessary measurement in Neuroscience...
