ReviewiScience2022
Blueprints for measuring natural behavior.
Review in iScience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Incorporating farm animal models for the study of neuropsychiatric diseases: Expansion of the possibilities.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Review
- Impaired behavioral flexibility and coping strategy shifts in 5xFAD mice in the novel Destruction-Building Test.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- Automated home-cage-like monitoring for assessing innate behaviors in a murine hangover model.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Information sharing within a social network is key to behavioral flexibility-Lessons from mice tested under seminaturalistic conditions.Science advances · 2025Article
- Validation of a non-food or water motivated effort-based foraging task as a measure of motivational state in male mice.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024Article
- Long-term tracking of social structure in groups of rats.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Home security cameras as a tool for behavior observations and science affordability.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Scale-Free Chaos in the 2D Harmonically Confined Vicsek Model.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- IntelliCage: the development and perspectives of a mouse- and user-friendly automated behavioral test system.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Review
- Seminatural environments for rodent behavioral testing: a representative design improving animal welfare and enhancing replicability.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
Until recently laboratory tasks for studying behavior were highly artificial, simplified, and designed without consideration for the environmental or social context. Although such an approach offers good control over behavior, it does not allow for researching either voluntary responses or individual differences. Importantly for neuroscience studies, the activity of the neural circuits involved in producing unnatural, artificial behavior is variable and hard to predict. In addition, different ensembles may be activated depending on the strategy the animal adopts to deal with the spurious problem. Thus, artificial and simplified tasks based on responses, which do not occur spontaneously entail problems with modeling behavioral impairments and underlying brain deficits. To develop valid models of human disorders we need to test spontaneous behaviors consistently engaging well-defined, evolutionarily conserved neuronal circuits. Such research focuses on behavioral patterns relevant for surviving and thriving under varying environmental conditions, which also enable high reproducibility across different testing settings.
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