Robyn Grant, from Manchester Metropolitan University, has shared the following with Open Behavior regarding the development of an automated rodent tracking (ART) program: We have developed a program, ART, that can automatically track rodent position and movement. It...
Robert Sachdev, from the Neurocure Cluster of Excellence, Humboldt Universität Zu Berlin, Germany, has generously shared the following regarding automated optical tracking of animal movement: “We have developed a method for tracking the motion of whiskers, limbs and...
Jan Zimmerman, a postdoc fellow in the Glimcher Lab at New York University has shared the following about Oculomatic: Video-based noninvasive eye trackers are an extremely useful tool for many areas of research. Many open-source eye trackers are available but current...
Timothy Murphy and his colleagues at the University of British Columbia have developed an automated system for mesoscopic functional imaging that allows subjects to self-initiate head-fixation and imaging within the home-cage. In their 2016 paper, “High-throughput...
Brian Isett, a graduate researcher in the Feldman Lab at UC Berkeley writes, “Measuring licks using a lickometer can provide an intuitive and simple signal for scientists studying many aspects of rodent behavior. Commercial lickometers are often bulky and...
