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SIT - Sensory Island Task

A New Behavioral Paradigm to Study Sensory Perception and Neural Processing in Freely Moving Animals

This blog post is about SIT, a behavioral paradigm we recently published. In SIT, animals explore an open field arena to find a hidden target. For target detection, they rely solely on changes in the presented stimulus, which is controlled by closed-loop position tracking in real-time. The blog will mostly cover the application of SIT for acoustic discrimination training in mouse lemurs.

Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz-Equation

An Interactive Simulation of the Goldman-Hodgkin-Katz-Equation

Models the resting potential across a cell membrane in dependence on the relative permeabilities as well as the inner and outer concentrations of different ion species.