Behavioral & Cognitive Testing

A deep transfer learning model for head pose estimation in rhesus macaques during cognitive tasks: Towards a nonrestraint noninvasive 3Rs approach

Head orientation is a measure of attention used in behavioral psychological research with non-human primates. It is used across a broad range of disciplines and settings, from the field to the laboratory. Field methods are time consuming with risk of...

Year Published: 2022Topics: Behavioral & Cognitive TestingAnimal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Bethell, E. J., Khan, W., Hussain, A. 2022. A deep transfer learning model for head pose estimation in rhesus macaques during cognitive tasks: Towards a nonrestraint noninvasive 3Rs approach. Applied Animal Behaviour Science 255, 105708.

Simultaneous assessment of spontaneous cage activity and voluntary wheel running in group-housed mice

Small animal models are frequently used to improve our understanding of the molecular and biological signaling pathways underlying the beneficial effects of physical activity and exercise. Unfortunately, when running wheels are employed, mice and rats are often kept single-housed to...

Year Published: 2022Topics: Behavioral & Cognitive TestingAnimal Type: Mouse, Rodent

Citation: Reuser, A., Wenzel, K., Felix, S. B. et al. 2022. Simultaneous assessment of spontaneous cage activity and voluntary wheel running in group-housed mice. Scientific Reports 12(1), 4444.

An apparatus for automatically training and collecting individualized behavioral data with socially housed rodents

Background: Conventional methods for individually housing, training, and testing rodents in behavioral assays can impose constraints that may limit some kinds of experimental external validity, preempt environmental enrichment, impose heavy experimenter time burdens that limit high-throughput data collection, and negatively...

Year Published: 2022Topics: Behavioral & Cognitive Testing, Social Housing & CompanionshipAnimal Type: Rat, Rodent

Citation: Butcher, G., Davidson, A., Sloanc, A. et al. 2021. An apparatus for automatically training and collecting individualized behavioral data with socially housed rodents. Journal of Neuroscience Methods 365, 109387.

A sensitive homecage-based novel object recognition task for rodents

The recognition of novel objects is a common cognitive test for rodents, but current paradigms have limitations, such as low sensitivity, possible odor confounds and stress due to being performed outside of the homecage. We have developed a paradigm that...

Year Published: 2021Topics: Behavioral & Cognitive TestingAnimal Type: Mouse, Rat, Rodent

Citation: Wooden, J. I., Spinetta, M. J., Nguyen, T. et al. 2021. A sensitive homecage-based novel object recognition task for rodents. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 15, 680042.

Facilitative effects of maternal environmental enrichment on maze learning in rat offspring

Maternal environmental enrichment during pregnancy can exert a facilitatory influence on the postnatal maze learning abilities of theoffspring.

Year Published: 1985Topics: Behavioral & Cognitive Testing, Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Rat, Rodent

Citation: Kiyono, S., Seo, M. L., Shibagaki, M. et al. 1985. Facilitative effects of maternal environmental enrichment on maze learning in rat offspring. Physiology and Behavior 34, 431-435.

Naive chimpanzees’ (Pan troglodytes) observation of experienced conspecifics in a tool-using task

The authors investigated the occurrence of naive chimpanzees' (Pan troglodytes) spontaneous observation of experienced conspecifics during a tool-use task entailing honey fishing. The chimpanzees were presented with 20 kinds of tools of which 12 kinds were usable. Six pairs of...

Year Published: 2000Topics: Behavioral & Cognitive TestingAnimal Type: Chimpanzee, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Hirata, S., Morimura, N. 2000. Naive chimpanzees' (Pan troglodytes) observation of experienced conspecifics in a tool-using task. Journal of Comparative Psychology 114(3), 291-296.

Long-term testing of macaques with the computerized test system: implications for cognition and enrichment

Year Published: 2001Topics: Behavioral & Cognitive Testing, Environmental EnrichmentAnimal Type: Macaque, Nonhuman Primate

Citation: Washburn, D. A., Gulledge, J., Rumbaugh, D. 2001. Long-term testing of macaques with the computerized test system: implications for cognition and enrichment. American Journal of Primatology 54(Supplement), 90-91 (Abstract).