A mechatronic platform for behavioral analysis on nonhuman primates

Journal of Integrative Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 87-101

  Taffoni, Fabrizio ^a   Vespignani, Massimo ^b   Formica, Domenico ^a   Cavallo, Giuseppe ^c   Di Sorrentino, Eugenia Polizzi ^d   Sabbatini, Gloria ^d   Truppa, Valentina ^d   Mirolli, Marco ^d   Baldassarre, Gianluca ^d   Visalberghi, Elisabetta ^d   Keller, Flavio ^a   Guglielmelli, Eugenio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

^b EPFL   (Switzerland)

^c Masmec spa ^*  (Italy)

^d INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

Author keywords

Behavioral analysis; intrinsic motivation; learning; mechatronics

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CEBUS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MECHATRONIC; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PILOT STUDY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR THERAPY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES; CEBUS;

EID: 84858690993     PISSN: 02196352     EISSN: 1757448X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219635212500069     Document Type: Article

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