In their recent eNeuro article, Bridget Matikainen-Ankney and colleagues from the Kravitz Lab have developed and shared their device, rodent activity detector (RAD), a low-cost system that can track and record activity in rodent home cages. Physical activity is an...
Zach Pennington from Denise Cai’s lab at Mt. Sinai recently published in Scientific Reports describing their latest open-source project called ezTrack: ezTrack is an open-source, platform independent set of behavior analysis pipelines using interactive Python...
In a recently published article (Erskine et al., 2019), The Schaefer lab at the Francis Crick Institute introduced their new open-source project called AutonoMouse. AutonoMouse is a fully automated, high-throughput system for self-initiated conditioning and behavior...
Victor Wumbor-Apin Kumbol and colleagues have developed and shared Actifield, an automated open-source actimeter for rodents, in a recent HardwareX publication. Measuring locomotor activity can be a useful readout for understanding effects of a number of experimental...
In 2007, Adam Hoffman and colleagues shared their design for an Electric Operant Testing Apparatus (ELOPTA) in Behavior Research Methods. Operant behavior is commonly studied in behavioral neuroscience, therefore there is a need for devices to train and collect data...
