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ArticleJournal of visualized experiments : JoVE2014

Automated, quantitative cognitive/behavioral screening of mice: for genetics, pharmacology, animal cognition and undergraduate instruction.

C R Gallistel, Fuat Balci, David Freestone, Aaron Kheifets, Adam King

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Article in Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
7citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 18 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Serotonin, neural markers, and memory.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2015
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  7. Cognitive assessment of mice strains heterozygous for cell-adhesion genes reveals strain-specific alterations in timing.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2014
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

C R GallistelDepartment of Psychology, Rutgers University; galliste@ruccs.rutgers.edu.
Fuat BalciDepartment of Psychology, Rutgers University; Department of Psychology, Koç University.
David FreestoneDepartment of Psychology, Rutgers University; Center for Neural Science, New York University.
Aaron KheifetsDepartment of Psychology, Rutgers University.
Adam KingDepartment of Mathematics & Computer Science, Fairfield University.
Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights · NLFairfield University · US

Funding

Cognitive Phenotyping in the MouseR01MH077027 · NIMH · RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIV OF N.J. · PI GALLISTEL, CHARLES R. · 2008 to 2012
$866k
NIMH NIH HHS 5R01MH77027NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH077027
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We describe a high-throughput, high-volume, fully automated, live-in 24/7 behavioral testing system for assessing the effects of genetic and pharmacological manipulations on basic mechanisms of cognition and learning in mice. A standard polypropylene mouse housing tub is connected through an acrylic tube to a standard commercial mouse test box. The test box has 3 hoppers, 2 of which are connected to pellet feeders. All are internally illuminable with an LED and monitored for head entries by infrared (IR) beams. Mice live in the environment, which eliminates handling during screening. They obtain their food during two or more daily feeding periods by performing in operant (instrumental) and Pavlovian (classical) protocols, for which we have written protocol-control software and quasi-real-time data analysis and graphing software. The data analysis and graphing routines are written in a MATLAB-based language created to simplify greatly the analysis of large time-stamped behavioral and physiological event records and to preserve a full data trail from raw data through all intermediate analyses to the published graphs and statistics within a single data structure. The data-analysis code harvests the data several times a day and subjects it to statistical and graphical analyses, which are automatically stored in the "cloud" and on in-lab computers. Thus, the progress of individual mice is visualized and quantified daily. The data-analysis code talks to the protocol-control code, permitting the automated advance from protocol to protocol of individual subjects. The behavioral protocols implemented are matching, autoshaping, timed hopper-switching, risk assessment in timed hopper-switching, impulsivity measurement, and the circadian anticipation of food availability. Open-source protocol-control and data-analysis code makes the addition of new protocols simple. Eight test environments fit in a 48 in x 24 in x 78 in cabinet; two such cabinets (16 environments) may be controlled by one computer.

Indexed as

Behavior, AnimalCognitionGenetics, BehavioralAnimalsConditioning, ClassicalConditioning, OperantHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysMiceSoftware

Identifiers

PMID24637442
PMCPMC4140415
OpenAlexW2044985107

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Registered trials

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