ArticleBehavior research methods2019
Mymou: A low-cost, wireless touchscreen system for automated training of nonhuman primates.
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21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- On the (limited) use of touchscreen-based behavioural and cognitive research with dogs: potential causes and future directions.Animal cognition · 2026Pooled it
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- Stereotactic lesioning of cholinergic cells by injection of ME20.4 Saporin in the nucleus basalis of Meynert in a rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta).Journal of neuropathology and experimental neurology · 2026Article
- CapuchinAI 1.0: Development of a machine learning-based touchscreen paradigm to test cognition in wild capuchins.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Development of an Automated Training Device for Macaque Monkeys.Basic and clinical neuroscience · 2025Article
- CalliCog is an open-source cognitive neuroscience toolkit for freely behaving nonhuman primates.Cell reports methods · 2025Article
- Home-Cage Training for Non-Human Primates: An Opportunity to Reduce Stress and Study Natural Behavior in Neurophysiology Experiments.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Review
- Compact and low-power wireless headstage for electrocorticography recording of freely moving primates in a home cage.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Behavioral Training in First-Generation Long-Tailed Macaques (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- A Touchscreen-Based, Multiple-Choice Approach to Cognitive Enrichment of Captive Rhesus Macaques (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Promoting Good Nonhuman Primate Welfare outside Regular Working Hours.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Review
- Home-Enclosure-Based Behavioral and Wireless Neural Recording Setup for Unrestrained Rhesus Macaques.eNeuro · 2023Article
- Apex and ApeTouch: Development of a Portable Touchscreen System and Software for Primates at Zoos.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Flexible auditory training, psychophysics, and enrichment of common marmosets with an automated, touchscreen-based system.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Group-based, autonomous, individualized training and testing of long-tailed macaques (Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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- Using touchscreen-delivered cognitive assessments to address the principles of the 3Rs in behavioral sciences.Lab animal · 2021Review
- Beyond MRI: on the scientific value of combining non-human primate neuroimaging with metadata.NeuroImage · 2021Article
- Autonomous cage-side system for remote training of non-human primates.Journal of neuroscience methods · 2021Article
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Abstract
Training nonhuman primates (NHPs) to perform cognitive tasks is essential for many neuroscientific investigations, yet laboratory training is a time-consuming process with inherent limitations. Habituating NHPs to the laboratory staff and experimental equipment can take months before NHPs are ready to proceed to the primary tasks. Laboratory training also necessarily separates NHPs from their home-room social group and typically involves some form of restraint or limited mobility, and data collection is often limited to a few hours per day so that multiple NHPs can be trained on the same equipment. Consequently, it can often take a year to train NHPs on complex cognitive tasks. To overcome these issues, we developed a low-cost, open-source, wireless touchscreen training system that can be installed in the home-room environment. The automated device can run continuously all day, including over weekends, without experimenter intervention. The system utilizes real-time facial recognition to initiate subject-specific tasks and provide accurate data logging, without the need for implanted microchips or separation of the NHPs. The system allows NHPs to select their preferred reward on each trial and to work when and for as long as they desire, and it can analyze task performance in real time and adapt the task parameters in order to expedite training. We demonstrate that NHPs consistently use this system on a daily basis to quickly learn complex behavioral tasks. The system therefore addresses many of the welfare and experimental limitations of laboratory-based training of NHPs and provides a platform for wireless electrophysiological investigations in more naturalistic, freely moving environments.
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