Behavioral decomposition reveals rich encoding structure employed across neocortex in rats

B Mimica, T Tombaz, C Battistin, JG Fuglstad… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The cortical population code is pervaded by activity patterns evoked by movement, but it
remains largely unknown how such signals relate to natural behavior or how they might …

Lightning Pose: improved animal pose estimation via semi-supervised learning, Bayesian ensembling and cloud-native open-source tools

D Biderman, MR Whiteway, C Hurwitz, N Greenspan… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Contemporary pose estimation methods enable precise measurements of behavior via
supervised deep learning with hand-labeled video frames. Although effective in many cases …

Using deep learning to study emotional behavior in rodent models

JY Kuo, AJ Denman, NJ Beacher… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Quantifying emotional aspects of animal behavior (eg, anxiety, social interactions, reward,
and stress responses) is a major focus of neuroscience research. Because manual scoring …

Improved 3D markerless mouse pose estimation using temporal semi-supervision

T Li, KS Severson, F Wang, TW Dunn - International journal of computer …, 2023 - Springer
Three-dimensional markerless pose estimation from multi-view video is emerging as an
exciting method for quantifying the behavior of freely moving animals. Nevertheless …

BKinD-3D: self-supervised 3D keypoint discovery from multi-view videos

JJ Sun, L Karashchuk, A Dravid… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Quantifying motion in 3D is important for studying the behavior of humans and other
animals, but manual pose annotations are expensive and time-consuming to obtain. Self …

ONIX: a unified open-source platform for multimodal neural recording and perturbation during naturalistic behavior

JP Newman, J Zhang, A Cuevas-López, NJ Miller… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Behavioral neuroscience faces two conflicting demands: long-duration recordings from large
neural populations and unimpeded animal behavior. To meet this challenge we developed …

Estimation of skeletal kinematics in freely moving rodents

A Monsees, KM Voit, DJ Wallace, J Sawinski… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Forming a complete picture of the relationship between neural activity and skeletal
kinematics requires quantification of skeletal joint biomechanics during free behavior; …

High-THC Cannabis smoke impairs incidental memory capacity in spontaneous tests of novelty preference for objects and odors in male rats

IL Barnard, TJ Onofrychuk, AD Toderash, VN Patel… - eneuro, 2023 - eneuro.org
Working memory is an executive function that orchestrates the use of limited amounts of
information, referred to as working memory capacity, in cognitive functions. Cannabis …

CNN-based action recognition and pose estimation for classifying animal behavior from videos: A survey

M Perez, C Toler-Franklin - arxiv preprint arxiv:2301.06187, 2023 - arxiv.org
Classifying the behavior of humans or animals from videos is important in biomedical fields
for understanding brain function and response to stimuli. Action recognition, classifying …

[HTML][HTML] A unified open-source platform for multimodal neural recording and perturbation during naturalistic behavior

JP Newman, J Zhang, A Cuevas-Lopez, NJ Miller… - bioRxiv, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Behavioral neuroscience faces two conflicting demands: long-duration recordings from large
neural populations and unimpeded animal behavior. To meet this challenge, we developed …