Automated tracking of animal posture and movement during exploration and sensory orientation behaviors.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The nervous functions of an organism are primarily reflected in the behavior it is capable of. Measuring behavior quantitatively, at high-resolution and in an automated fashion provides valuable information about the underlying neural circuit computation. Accordingly, computer-vision applications for animal tracking are becoming a key complementary toolkit to genetic, molecular and electrophysiological characterization in systems neuroscience.

Methodology/principal findings

We present Sensory Orientation Software (SOS) to measure behavior and infer sensory experience correlates. SOS is a simple and versatile system to track body posture and motion of single animals in two-dimensional environments. In the presence of a sensory landscape, tracking the trajectory of

SUBMITTER: Gomez-Marin A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3415430 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature