Air-Track: a real-world floating environment for active sensing in head-fixed mice.

ABSTRACT: Natural behavior occurs in multiple sensory and motor modalities and in particular is dependent on sensory feedback that constantly adjusts behavior. To investigate the underlying neuronal correlates of natural behavior, it is useful to have access to state-of-the-art recording equipment (e.g., 2-photon imaging, patch recordings, etc.) that frequently requires head fixation. This limitation has been addressed with various approaches such as virtual reality/air ball or treadmill systems. However, achieving multimodal realistic behavior in these systems can be challenging. These systems are often also complex and expensive to implement. Here we present "Air-Track," an easy-to-build head-fixed behavioral environment that requires only minimal computational processing. The Air-Track is a light

SUBMITTER: Nashaat MA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5144720 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature