ReptiLearn: An automated home cage system for behavioral experiments in reptiles without human intervention.

ABSTRACT: Understanding behavior and its evolutionary underpinnings is crucial for unraveling the complexities of brain function. Traditional approaches strive to reduce behavioral complexity by designing short-term, highly constrained behavioral tasks with dichotomous choices in which animals respond to defined external perturbation. In contrast, natural behaviors evolve over multiple time scales during which actions are selected through bidirectional interactions with the environment and without human intervention. Recent technological advancements have opened up new possibilities for experimental designs that more closely mirror natural behaviors by replacing stringent experimental control with accurate multidimensional behavioral analysis. However, these approaches have been tailored to fit only

SUBMITTER: Eisenberg T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10931465 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature