Measuring behaviour into the twenty-first century

Article Abstract:

A recent development in the field of neuroscience is the automated detection of parameters essential for behavioral analysis. Such innovations utilize systems that are based on changes in electromagnetic fields, changes in mass distribution and pressure, changes in conductivity of elastic material, vibration, sound, ultrasound and digitized video-images. It is foreseen that achieving an automated, reliable and non-arbitrary technique is largely dependent not on the development of better computer hardwares and softwares but on the advancement of better behavioral concepts.

Methods, Analysis, Technology application, Neurology

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Unusual behavioral phenotypes of inbred mouse strains

Article Abstract:

Researchers in behavior genetics are beginning to recognize the potential for errors in using mice in which a gene has been removed to study the effects of the gene's absence in the organism. They believe that the gene's absence may be compensated by redundancy mechanisms in the genome that would mask the effect of the missing gene. Researchers are also proceeding more cautiously in using transgenic mice by comparing their phenotypes with the heterozygous and homozygous mutants as well as the first and second generation descendants of these mice.

Behavior genetics, Behavioral genetics, Inbreeding

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Behavioral measurement in perspective?

Article Abstract:

A meeting report on the measurement of behavior is discussed. Topics include the influence of I.P. Pavlov and B.F. Skinner, concepts, technological advances, and objectivity of measures.

Measurement

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