Nicholas Michelson and colleagues, in the lab of Timothy Murphy at the University of British Columbia, developed Meso-Py. It is a Raspberry-Pi based platform for dual-brain calcium imaging in mice during head-fixed social interactions. Designed to explore the neural...
FlexRig is an open-source platform for running experiments to test decision making and cognitive flexibility in mice. It was developed by Dr Tim Spellman and his lab at the UConn School of Medicine. The platform allows for using olfactory, somatosensory, and/or...
Adam Lester and colleagues from the NC4 lab, led by Dr. Manu Madhav at the University of British Columbia, have developed NC4gate, a fully customizable gate system that can be used in behavioral experiments involving rodent mazes (T-maze, Y-maze, radial arm, etc.)....
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...
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...
