Creating a low cost open source operant box

创建低成本开源操作盒

• 批准号: 8741637
• 负责人: Alexxai V Kravitz
• 金额: $ 14.57万
• 依托单位: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 至
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8741637
• 关键词: Accounting; Anxiety; Behavioral; Biological Assay; Boxing; Computer software; Goals; Mental Depression; Motivation; Mus; Process; Research Personnel; Software Tools; Solutions; Sucrose; System; Touch sensation; Training; Work; addiction; behavior test; cost; interest; open source; programs; sensor

We aim to create a low cost (<$100) operant training box, using open source tools and software. Operant training is a highly valuable form of behavioral testing that can assay motivation, impulsiveness, anxiety, depression, addiction, and many other behavioral processes. Unfortunately, most commerical suppliers provide chambers that cost on the order of $5-10K per chamber, once all software and hardware is accounted for. This is prohibitively expensive for many researchers, so we would like to develop a low cost solution that will allow our selves, our collaborators, and any other interested researchers access to this form of behavioral testing.

我们的目标是使用开源工具和软件创建一个低成本（<100美元）的操作培训箱。操作训练是一种非常有价值的行为测试形式，可以分析动机，冲动，焦虑，抑郁，成瘾和许多其他行为过程。不幸的是，一旦所有软件和硬件都被考虑在内，大多数供应商提供的腔室的成本为每个腔室5 - 10 K美元。这对许多研究人员来说是非常昂贵的，所以我们想开发一种低成本的解决方案，让我们自己，我们的合作者和任何其他感兴趣的研究人员都可以使用这种形式的行为测试。