Reproducibility and relevance of future behavioral sciences should benefit from a cross fertilization of past recommendations and today's technology: "Back to the future"

Journal of Neuroscience Methods

Volumn 234, Issue , 2014, Pages 2-12

  Spruijt, Berry M ^a,b   Peters, Suzanne M ^a,b   de Heer, Raymond C ^a,b   Pothuizen, Helen H J ^b   van der Harst, Johanneke E ^a,b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b Delta Phenomics BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Animal behavior; Automation; Ethology; Home cage testing; Open field; Validity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; AUTOMATION; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CAGE; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FUTUROLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SEDATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STANDARDIZATION; ANIMAL; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; TIME; TRENDS;

ANIMALS; AUTOMATION; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84905408169     PISSN: 01650270     EISSN: 1872678X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2014.03.001     Document Type: Review

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