About the Authors

Surjeet Singh

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

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

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

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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.