The emergence of pose-estimation tools for animal studies has provided a means of accurately tracking postural dynamics and locomotion in freely behaving animals. However, translating pose-data to dynamic behavioral states remains a challenge. Kevin Luxem and...
TRex is an open source animal tracking tool developed by Tristan Walker and Iain Couzin. In recent years, visual tracking of animal movement has become a valuable method for studying animal behavior. TRex seeks to improve upon current animal tracking softwares by...
Zexin Chen, Ruihan Zhang and colleagues have developed a tool called AlphaTracker which allows researchers to anaylyze the behavior of multiple animals via video analysis. This tool has been worked on in several labs, including but not limited to Shanghai Jiao Tong...
Based on the understanding of the “eye-mind hypothesis,” neuroscientists have been utilizing eye-tracking software in their lab settings to collect data for various behavioral studies (more specifically, attention studies). But, with the rapidly changing state of...
The forced swim test (FST) and tail suspension test (TST) are highly validated measures of depressive-like behavior in rodents that have both been used for decades to screen for antidepressant drugs. They have also found use in evaluating the non-motor symptoms of...
