Procedures for Behavioral Experiments in Head-Fixed Mice

Zengcai V. Guo; S. Andrew Hires; Nuo Li; Daniel H. O'Connor; Takaki Komiyama; Eran Ophir; Daniel Huber; Claudia Bonardi; Karin Morandell; Diego Gutnisky; Simon Peron; Ning-long Xu; James Cox; Karel Svoboda

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0088678

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Procedures for Behavioral Experiments in Head-Fixed Mice

Zengcai V. Guo,

Affiliation Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America
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S. Andrew Hires,

Present address: Section of Neurobiology and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

Affiliation Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America
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Nuo Li,

Affiliation Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America
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Daniel H. O'Connor,

Present address: The Solomon H. Snyder Department of Neuroscience and Brain Science Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Affiliation Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America
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Takaki Komiyama,

Present address: Section of Neurobiology and Department of Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego, California, United States of America

Affiliation Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America
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Eran Ophir,

Affiliation Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America
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Daniel Huber,

Affiliations Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America, Department of Basic Neurosciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Claudia Bonardi,

Affiliation Department of Basic Neurosciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Karin Morandell,

Affiliation Department of Basic Neurosciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Diego Gutnisky,

Affiliation Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America
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Simon Peron,

Affiliation Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America
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Ning-long Xu,

Present address: Institute of Neuroscience, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China

Affiliation Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America
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James Cox,

Affiliation Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America
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Karel Svoboda

* E-mail: svobodak@janelia.hhmi.org

Affiliation Janelia Farm Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, Virginia, United States of America
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Procedures for Behavioral Experiments in Head-Fixed Mice

Zengcai V. Guo,
S. Andrew Hires,
Nuo Li,
Daniel H. O'Connor,
Takaki Komiyama,
Eran Ophir,
Daniel Huber,
Claudia Bonardi,
Karin Morandell,
Diego Gutnisky

Published: February 10, 2014
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0088678

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error in flowchart?

Posted by lorteije on 18 Feb 2014 at 16:34 GMT

I think that the "yes' and "no" arrows are reversed for the question "does the mouse move around the cage without being touched" in the flowchart (or that the question should be in negative form).

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error in flowchart?

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