I contributed a little bit to this methods paper now published in #eNeuro :
Adapt-A-Maze: An Open-Source Adaptable and Automated Rodent Behavior Maze System - my contribution is mostly about the automated, pneumatic door system, as you may know, doors are my thing 😉 🚪

First author Blake Porter from the #JadhavLab did a great job putting everything together in an easily-useable format and, for once, I will link to Bluesky with his nice thread on it: https://bsky.app/profile/blakep-neuro.bsky.social/post/3lms56kaj3k2x

If you ever try to implement it in your own lab, let me know!

#SpatialCognition #NeuroRat #Navigation

@BenoitGirard @Raphael_Brito Nicely said! #ThetaSequences are where I’ll look next actually :) However, I’m not fully sure they’ll be predicting the behaviour, and @adredish would probably tell you that they don’t, earlier in training (even if the rat ends up deciding where to go), and when they do later in training the rat is already automatized… see also work from the #JadhavLab.

On the other hand (and do correct me if I’m missing something) I’m not sure that anyone has looked at theta sequences in a place / allocentric task, so maybe we’ll see the hippocampus doing something different in that case!

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The #JadhavLab has some openings for a Research Specialist and several PostDocs!

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