Quantifying the buildup in extent and complexity of free exploration in mice

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue SUPPL. 3, 2011, Pages 15580-15587

  Benjamini, Yoav ^a   Fonio, Ehud ^b   Galili, Tal ^a   Havkin, Gregor Z ^c   Golani, Ilan ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c Princeton Biometrics   (United States)

Author keywords

Dimensionality emergence assay; Dynamics of behavior; Open field test; Phenotyping mouse behavior; Sequences of repeated motion

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONFERENCE PAPER; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GROWTH RATE; MOTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 80053142043     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1014837108     Document Type: Article

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