Quantifying behavior to understand the brain

TD Pereira, JW Shaevitz, M Murthy - Nature neuroscience, 2020 - nature.com
Over the past years, numerous methods have emerged to automate the quantification of
animal behavior at a resolution not previously imaginable. This has opened up a new field of …

Innovations and advances in modelling and measuring pain in animals

KE Sadler, JS Mogil, CL Stucky - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2022 - nature.com
Best practices in preclinical algesiometry (pain behaviour testing) have shifted over the past
decade as a result of technological advancements, the continued dearth of translational …

[HTML][HTML] Keypoint-MoSeq: parsing behavior by linking point tracking to pose dynamics

C Weinreb, JE Pearl, S Lin, MAM Osman, L Zhang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Keypoint tracking algorithms can flexibly quantify animal movement from videos obtained in
a wide variety of settings. However, it remains unclear how to parse continuous keypoint …

[HTML][HTML] The emergence and influence of internal states

SW Flavell, N Gogolla, M Lovett-Barron, M Zelikowsky - Neuron, 2022 - cell.com
Animal behavior is shaped by a variety of" internal states"—partially hidden variables that
profoundly shape perception, cognition, and action. The neural basis of internal states, such …

Animal kingdom: A large and diverse dataset for animal behavior understanding

XL Ng, KE Ong, Q Zheng, Y Ni… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - openaccess.thecvf.com
Understanding animals' behaviors is significant for a wide range of applications. However,
existing animal behavior datasets have limitations in multiple aspects, including limited …

[HTML][HTML] The spatial and temporal structure of neural activity across the fly brain

ES Schaffer, N Mishra, MR Whiteway, W Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
What are the spatial and temporal scales of brainwide neuronal activity? We used swept,
confocally-aligned planar excitation (SCAPE) microscopy to image all cells in a large …

Toward the explainability, transparency, and universality of machine learning for behavioral classification in neuroscience

NL Goodwin, SRO Nilsson, JJ Choong… - Current opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
The use of rigorous ethological observation via machine learning techniques to understand
brain function (computational neuroethology) is a rapidly growing approach that is poised to …

AmadeusGPT: a natural language interface for interactive animal behavioral analysis

S Ye, J Lauer, M Zhou, A Mathis… - Advances in neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
The process of quantifying and analyzing animal behavior involves translating the naturally
occurring descriptive language of their actions into machine-readable code. Yet, codifying …

[HTML][HTML] Hierarchical action encoding in prefrontal cortex of freely moving macaques

B Voloh, DJN Maisson, RL Cervera, I Conover… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Our natural behavioral repertoires include coordinated actions of characteristic types. To
better understand how neural activity relates to the expression of actions and action …

[HTML][HTML] Identifying behavioral structure from deep variational embeddings of animal motion

K Luxem, P Mocellin, F Fuhrmann, J Kürsch… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Quantification and detection of the hierarchical organization of behavior is a major challenge
in neuroscience. Recent advances in markerless pose estimation enable the visualization of …