A behavioral box for tactile tasks discrimination

  • José Wanderson Oliveira Silva UFRN
  • Luiz Marcos Garcia Gonçalves UFRN

Resumo


Among the studies done with rodents, the behavioral ones stand out. To perform these studies, the behavioral boxes are commonly used. These are devices in which the rodents perform some task to receive a reward. These animals are considered excellent subjects for studying the tactile sensory system, since they use their whiskers to locate and discriminate objects. In this work the goal is studying the sensory system of rodents in tasks in which the animals must discriminate the width of an aperture, using only their whiskers to receive a reward. We aim to develop an automated open-hardware behavioral box to perform task of tactile discrimination in rodents. For such, we designed the box using a three-dimensional modeling software and its control is implemented with Arduino, which was tested in a computer model trhough physical simulation. All used components are low cost and can be found or developed in Brazil. The present study provides an important tool for the study of the tactile sensory system, that makes possible other laboratories to build their own behavior box for tactile studies.

Palavras-chave: Rodents, Somatosensory, Sensory Integration, Behavioral Box

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Publicado
11/11/2020
SILVA, José Wanderson Oliveira; GONÇALVES, Luiz Marcos Garcia. A behavioral box for tactile tasks discrimination. In: WORKSHOP DE TESES E DISSERTAÇÕES EM ROBÓTICA - WTDR - SIMPÓSIO BRASILEIRO DE ROBÓTICA E SIMPÓSIO LATINO-AMERICANO DE ROBÓTICA (SBR/LARS), 8. , 2020, Natal. Anais [...]. Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação, 2020 . p. 23-36. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wtdr_ctdr.2020.14952.