Thomas Akam, from the University of Oxford, has developed an open-source active commutator designed to simplify one critical challenge of electrophysiology. This device addresses the common issue of tether tangling during experiments with freely moving subjects. The...
Breathing is a neuromuscular process that has been historically difficult to study in animal models. Typically, electromyography (EMG) or other approaches to record from respiratory muscles are conducted while the subject is under anesthesia, which limits our...
Traditional methods for understanding animal behavior through videos required experimenters to rewatch videos and manually score timing and location of events. This approach is time consuming, and prone to inconsistencies between different scorers. Pose estimation...
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...
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.)....
