Using touchscreen equipped operant chambers to study animal cognition. Benefits, limitations, and advice

Benjamin M Seitz1, Kelsey McCune2, Maggie MacPherson2

  • 1University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.

Plos One
|February 19, 2021
PubMed
Summary

Touchscreen-equipped operant chambers (TOCs) offer advanced visual stimuli and response flexibility for animal cognition research. This study details training wild-caught grackles using TOCs, providing a guide for non-model species research.

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