Automated Tactile Stimulus for Animals
In behavioral experiments, many different paradigms involve the presentation of visual stimuli to the experimental subjects. A former Purdue University researcher has developed an automated computer-controlled device for presenting compound tactile stimuli in computer-controlled behavioral experiments. Its advantage is that it can be used for subjects with poor vision or hearing, such as mice. It also allows the rapid automated presentation of qualitatively different compound stimuli. The stimuli presented are more directly analogous to the compound visual stimuli presented to humans and primates. This device has three wheels, each with a different pattern, shape, or texture, which are computer controlled to present a single shape-pattern-texture compound stimulus to the subject.
Works with mice Does not require human placement of stimuli
Behavioral experiments
Joe GarnerPurdue Animal Sciences
United States
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美国
