ROBucket: A low cost operant chamber based on the Arduino microcontroller

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 503-509

  Devarakonda, Kavya ^a   Nguyen, Katrina P ^a   Kravitz, Alexxai V ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Arduino; Instrumental conditioning; Open source; Operant chamber; Operant conditioning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DEVICES; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; MOUSE; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; MALE; MICE; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

EID: 84930166119     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-015-0603-2     Document Type: Article

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