Validation of a new system for the automatic registration of behaviour in mice and rats

HA Van de Weerd, RJA Bulthuis, AF Bergman… - Behavioural …, 2001 - Elsevier
A newly developed behaviour registration system, Laboratory Animal Behaviour
Observation, Registration and Analysis System (LABORAS) for the automatic registration of
different behavioural elements of mice and rats was validated. The LABORAS sensor
platform records vibrations evoked by animal movements and the LABORAS software
translates these into the corresponding behaviours. Data obtained by using LABORAS were
compared with data from conventional observation methods (observations of videotapes by …