Campden Instruments
Bussey-Saksida touch screen chamber package, for rats or mice
Code 80614Campden
This equipment can run both autoshaping and a variety of operant tasks in the same chamber, with chamber configuration from autoshaping to one of the other proven paradigms in seconds Not just a touch screen, this is the ultimate modular chamber for high throughput. For example, do Visual Discrimination and Reversal in the morning and Five Choice Serial Reaction Time Task in the afternoon.
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Features
Touch screen paradigms:
- Visual Discrimination and Reversal (VDR)
- Paired Associate Learning (PAL)
- Location Discrimination (LD)
- Visuospatial Conditional Learning (VCL)
- 5-choice Serial Reaction Time Task (5-CSRT)
- Trial-Unique Nonmatching-to-Location (TUNL) [rat only at this time]
- Autoshaping
- Extinction
Features
- Add to the chamber, many options for different shaped walls and configurations, different floors, pellet or liquid reward, ambulatory I/R beams, I/R observation systems, and sound attenuation cubicles
- ABET II Touch software resides on the WhiskerServer Controller. One Controller can control up to 4 chambers
- Paradigms from Bussey's lab [Cognitive Systems Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Cambridge, England] are available as pre-programmed ABET II Touch schedules
- Touch screen units are modified and optimized for use with rodents; all technology is research-validated and scientifically proven in Bussey's Lab
- Easy-Installation Kit keeps the wiring neat and tidy to get you up and running quickly and impress your regulatory inspector
- Beginner packages: Includes the starter chamber, trapezoidal walls, perforated floor, reward trough, touch screen and sound attenuating cubicle with slide out tray
Specifications
Animal working area
- 126mm width at Feeder
- 240mm width at screen x 332 mm deep (607.6 Sq. cm or 94.17 Sq. in)
- Working area is 300mm in height
Sound attenuation cubicle (SAC)
- Attenuation: approx. 35dB
- Weight: 38 kg (empty)
- External dimensions: 600 mm wide x 670mm tall x 352 mm deep
- Internal dimensions: 540 mm wide x 610mm tall x 532 mm deep
Publications
- Rodent Touchscreen Bibliography
- Neurosciences CEDD's Study of Effects of Compound X in a two stimulus discrimination and reversal learning task using novel touchscreen apparatus
- Prof. Bussey's Profile
- Start running and watch your brain grow, say scientists:
- Physical exercise helps brains grow, mouse study finds:
- Running could help jog memory and help brain grow, says Cambridge study:
- Pairwise discrimination followed by reversal in C57BL6/J using mouse touchscreen operant boxes.
- Whisker: A client–server high-performance multimedia research control system
- New translational assays for preclinical modelling of cognition in schizophrenia:
- The touchscreen testing method for mice and rats
- The Drug Deadlock
- Bussey Rodent Touch Screen Biography List
- Stress facilitates late reversal learning using a touchscreen-based visual discrimination procedure in male Long Evans rats
- Post-training depletions of basolateral amygdala serotonin fail to disrupt discrimination, retention, or reversal learning
- Distinct patterns of outcome valuation and amygdala-prefrontal cortex synaptic remodeling in adolescence and adulthood
- Comparison of the validity of the use of the spontaneously hypertensive rat as a model of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in males and females