About the Authors
- Surjeet Singh
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Contributed equally to this work with: Surjeet Singh, Edgar Bermudez-Contreras
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
- Edgar Bermudez-Contreras
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Contributed equally to this work with: Surjeet Singh, Edgar Bermudez-Contreras
Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
- Mojtaba Nazari
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
- Robert J. Sutherland
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Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: robert.sutherland@uleth.ca (RJS); mohajerani@uleth.ca (MHM)
Affiliation Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
- Majid H. Mohajerani
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Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: robert.sutherland@uleth.ca (RJS); mohajerani@uleth.ca (MHM)
Affiliation Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB, Canada
Competing Interests
Some of the authors (EBC, MHM, and RJS) have a financial interest in the company “NeuroCage Systems Inc.” that is developing a product “Homecage Monitoring System” whose initial design was inspired by the results presented in this work. Some of the authors (SS, EBC, MHM, and RJS) have a patent application that includes some of the functionality presented in this work. Pending patent for SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF HOMECAGE MONITORING; patent application # 62/857,879 (US) and 3,045,478 (Canada). There are no further products in development, or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.