02 Feb Touchscreen Cleaning SOP
New best practice cleaning document available! We hope this addition to our SOP list will further enhance touchscreen research!...
Author: Julie Dumont
31 Jan Touchscreen Cognition Community Newsletter – January 2023
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27 Jan Dopamine modulating agents alter individual subdomains of motivation-related behavior assessed by touchscreen procedures
Abstract Development of novel treatments for motivational deficits experienced by individuals with schizophrenia and major depressive disorder requires procedures that reliably assess effort-related behavior in pre-clinical models. High-throughput touchscreen-based testing, that parallels the computerized assessment of human patients, offers a platform for the establishment of tasks...
09 Jan MouseTRAP Featured in Open Behavior
"MouseTRAP is a platform of touchscreen cognition tasks plus websites for data sharing that allows for improved rodent cognitive testing, standardization of rodent research practices, and increased data sharing in the field of rodent behavioral research. These features address persisting constraints in this field of...
22 Dec Happy Holidays Touchscreen Community!
Check out our holiday newsletter recapping some of our accomplishments and wishing you all a restorative break. Click here. ...
08 Nov A Touchscreen Device for Behavioral Testing in Pigs
This was shared with me this past week and thought it might be of interest to the wider community as most of us care about translational research. (I also simply love animal cognition!) This paper is by Will Ao, Megan Grace, Candance L. Floyd & Cole...
31 Oct Quarterly Newsletter: October 2022
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15 May Marco Prado Highlights Touchscreens at the Toronto 2022 Workshop on Reproducibility
Listen to Marco Prado's Toronto 2022 Workshop on Reproducibility which highlights the use of touchscreens. https://www.youtube.com/embed/j5HWsUJQ7SQ ...
06 May New Mouse SOP: Visuomotor Conditional Learning (VMCL)
New mouse SOP available on our website. VMCL requires quick stimulus-response habit learning, which are impaired in neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's or Huntington's. Check it out here....
30 Mar Preference and discrimination of facial expressions of humans, rats, and mice by C57 mice
Abstract Social animals likely recognize emotional expressions in other animals. Recent studies suggest that mice can visually perceive emotional expressions of other mice. In the first experiment, we measured the preference of mice for two different facial expressions (a normal facial expression and an expression of...