Ten ways to improve the quality of descriptions of whole-animal movement

Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1351-1365

  Benjamini, Yoav ^a   Lipkind, Dina ^a   Horev, Guy ^a   Fonio, Ehud ^a   Kafkafi, Neri ^b   Golani, Ilan ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Compression of kinematic data; Description of behavior; Discriminability between strains and preparations; Exploratory behavior; Genotype laboratory interaction; Mixed Model Anova; Open field behavior; Phenotyping mouse behavior; Replicability of results; Segmentation of behavior; Smoothing kinematic data

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HOUSING; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, LABORATORY; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOMECHANICS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 77954089030     PISSN: 01497634     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2010.04.004     Document Type: Review

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