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- Title
A technological framework for running and analyzing animal head turning experiments.
- Authors
Oh, Jinook; Hoeschele, Marisa; Reber, Stephan A.; Šlipogor, Vedrana; Bugnyar, Thomas; Fitch, W. Tecumseh
- Abstract
Head turning experiments are widely used to test the cognition of both human infants and non-human animal species. Monitoring head turns allows researchers to non-invasively assess attention to acoustic or visual stimuli. In the majority of head turning experiments, the head direction analyses have been accomplished manually, which is extremely labor intensive and can be affected by subjectivity or other human errors and limitations. In the current study, we introduce an open-source computer program for measuring head directions of freely moving animals including common marmoset monkeys (Callithrix jacchus), American alligators (Alligator mississippiensis), and Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus) to reduce human effort and time in video coding. We also illustrate an exemplary framework for an animal head turning experiment with common marmoset monkeys. This framework incorporates computer-aided processes of data acquisition, preprocessing, and analysis using the aforementioned software and additional open-source software and hardware.
- Subjects
COGNITIVE development research; COMPUTER-aided design; COGNITION research; INFORMATION technology; OPEN source software
- Publication
Behavior Research Methods, 2018, Vol 50, Issue 3, p1154
- ISSN
1554-351X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/s13428-017-0934-2