New Open-Source Tools: Using Bonsai for Behavioral Tracking and Closed-Loop Experiments

Lopes, Gonçalo and Monteiro, Patricia (2021) New Open-Source Tools: Using Bonsai for Behavioral Tracking and Closed-Loop Experiments. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 15. ISSN 1662-5153

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Abstract

The ability to dynamically control a behavioral task based on real-time animal behavior is an important feature for experimental neuroscientists. However, designing automated boxes for behavioral studies requires a coordinated combination of mechanical, electronic, and software design skills which can challenge even the best engineers, and for that reason used to be out of reach for the majority of experimental neurobiology and behavioral pharmacology researchers. Due to parallel advances in open-source hardware and software developed for neuroscience researchers, by neuroscience researchers, the landscape has now changed significantly. Here, we discuss powerful approaches to the study of behavior using examples and tutorials in the Bonsai visual programming language, towards designing simple neuroscience experiments that can help researchers immediately get started. This language makes it easy for researchers, even without programming experience, to combine the operation of several open-source devices in parallel and design their own integrated custom solutions, enabling unique and flexible approaches to the study of behavior, including video tracking of behavior and closed-loop electrophysiology.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: EP Archives > Biological Science
Depositing User: Managing Editor
Date Deposited: 21 Feb 2023 05:14
Last Modified: 07 Mar 2024 04:05
URI: http://research.send4journal.com/id/eprint/1051

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