Quantifying behavior to understand the brain

TD Pereira, JW Shaevitz, M Murthy - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Over the past years, numerous methods have emerged to automate the quantification of
animal behavior at a resolution not previously imaginable. This has opened up a new field of …

Computational neuroethology: a call to action

SR Datta, DJ Anderson, K Branson, P Perona, A Leifer - Neuron, 2019 - cell.com
The brain is worthy of study because it is in charge of behavior. A flurry of recent technical
advances in measuring and quantifying naturalistic behaviors provide an important …

DeepPoseKit, a software toolkit for fast and robust animal pose estimation using deep learning

JM Graving, D Chae, H Naik, L Li, B Koger… - elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Quantitative behavioral measurements are important for answering questions across
scientific disciplines—from neuroscience to ecology. State-of-the-art deep-learning methods …

Fast animal pose estimation using deep neural networks

TD Pereira, DE Aldarondo, L Willmore, M Kislin… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The need for automated and efficient systems for tracking full animal pose has increased
with the complexity of behavioral data and analyses. Here we introduce LEAP (LEAP …

Automated markerless pose estimation in freely moving macaques with OpenMonkeyStudio

PC Bala, BR Eisenreich, SBM Yoo, BY Hayden… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The rhesus macaque is an important model species in several branches of science,
including neuroscience, psychology, ethology, and medicine. The utility of the macaque …

Big behavior: challenges and opportunities in a new era of deep behavior profiling

L von Ziegler, O Sturman, J Bohacek - Neuropsychopharmacology, 2021 - nature.com
The assessment of rodent behavior forms a cornerstone of preclinical assessment in
neuroscience research. Nonetheless, the true and almost limitless potential of behavioral …

Measuring behavior across scales

GJ Berman - BMC biology, 2018 - Springer
The need for high-throughput, precise, and meaningful methods for measuring behavior has
been amplified by our recent successes in measuring and manipulating neural circuitry. The …

Ethology as a physical science

AEX Brown, B De Bivort - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
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Optogenetic dissection of descending behavioral control in Drosophila

J Cande, S Namiki, J Qiu, W Korff, GM Card… - Elife, 2018 - elifesciences.org
In most animals, the brain makes behavioral decisions that are transmitted by descending
neurons to the nerve cord circuitry that produces behaviors. In insects, only a few …

[HTML][HTML] Probabilistic models of larval zebrafish behavior reveal structure on many scales

RE Johnson, S Linderman, T Panier, CL Wee, E Song… - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Nervous systems have evolved to combine environmental information with internal state to
select and generate adaptive behavioral sequences. To better understand these …