BehaviorCloud Blog

You can upload videos to your account for both automated activity tracking and manual behavior scoring.

The BehaviorCloud Camera app is still a great way to run live trials by directly streaming video into your account without an expensive...

BehaviorCloud’s automated activity tracking is great for analyzing an animal’s movement in a maze or homecage. But sometimes a human observer is required to score complex behaviors like social interactions. For those cases, BehaviorCloud...

Computer vision tracking of animal activity has dramatically improved efficiency in behavioral neuroscience research, but many complex behaviors still require manual scoring by a human observer. In some cases, automated activity tracking...

The Y maze (or similarly, T maze) is a test used for measuring working memory in laboratory rodents. It is a Y-shaped (or T-shaped) maze with three arms enclosed by walls on all sides. Rodents typically prefer to explore a new part of the...

The open field is a test used for measuring locomotor activity and anxiety-like behavior in laboratory rodents. It is a square-shaped arena enclosed by walls on all sides. Rodents typically prefer to spend time in enclosed spaces and will...