The Operant Conditioning Wall for Automated Cognition Testing in the Home Cage.
The Operant Wall, featured in PhenoMaster, is a unique integrated into metabolic home cage, operant testing platform available. Conduct fully automated operant conditioning experiments without user interference, ensuring no stress for the animal, thus preserving learning performance and data integrity. The homecage setup is ideal for extensive, long-term experiments, enabling more trials per animal and facilitating circadian analysis of learning abilities. Additionally, it streamlines the experimenter’s workload and conserves valuable laboratory space. Operant Walls for rats and mice are customizable from hardware modules tailored to individual tasks. The system offers unparalleled versatility, whether studying motivation, attention, impulsivity, or conducting simple learning tasks.
Minimal human interference
Increased habituation and learning speed
Long-term self-motivated learning
Reduced anxiety and stress level
Customized test protocols with the powerful Operant Behavior software
Circadian screening of learning abilities
Construct a highly adaptable operant wall system precisely aligned with your research requirements. Our extensive selection of modular components empowers you to configure the ideal setup for your specific behavioral experiments.
Empowering diverse behavioral research, this operant wall fosters customized testing environments.
Animals adapt to the Operant Wall much quicker than to Standard Skinner boxes. This reduces the duration of the experiment
Independent operation in all Operant Wall units – animals can proceed through complex multi-step paradigms at their speed
High level of flexibility regarding generation of experimental tasks – easy-to-use graphical user interface – no programming knowledge required
Long-term experiments allow accurate circadian performance analyses
High-throughput multi-cage setups – reduced workload for the experimenter
Combine respirometry for cognitive testing in metabolic research – unique on the market!
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