Case Studies

The paper introduces PhenoLab as a tool to measure the effects of wheel running on the time distribution and daily organization of cage floor locomotor activity in mice.   To study these effects, female C57BL/6 mice were assigned to either ...

To gain more knowledge on the feed intake behavior of boiler chicks, Theme was used to evaluate whether a change in the physical characteristics of feed particles influenced the time pattern organization of their feed pecking behavior.  Theme revealed that ...

Broilers are young chickens kept to produce poultry meat. They grow from 50g up to approximately 2.5kg in 6 weeks; their slaughter age. Fast growth and high body weight are associated with heart, respiration, and leg problems which influence their ...

Corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) plays a pivotal role in the response of an organism to various stressors. Furthermore, chronic elevated levels of CRH are implicated in human stress-related and affective disorders, including major depression. To gain more insight into the relationship ...

At Newcastle University,  Dr Catherine O’Hanlon and Dr Jenny Read have been using an SMI RED50 to track children’s eye movements while they perform an experimental task using a touchscreen. This posed a few technical difficulties; The touchscreen displaying the ...

Children with autism have difficulties with joint attention. Previous theoretical accounts suggest that this problem is the consequence of a deficit in forming triadic representations. An alternative view is that the joint attention impairment is built on the foundation of ...

Domestication is the process by which animals that we keep in our farms today have been genetically changed from their ancestors. In this study the hypothesis that wild animals use a more costly behavioral strategy in comparison to domesticated animals ...

The Cognitive Task Modelling Group at the University of Sheffield is currently working on an EPSRC-funded project modelling the perception and comprehension of dynamic displays in computer interface design. The project compares interfaces that follow design principals identified by the ...

The SPARC group at the University of Roehampton is currently using iView X to monitor the eye-movements of sportsmen and sportswomen. The HED (helmet-mounted eye-tracking device) records the surroundings of the subject from his/her point of view and overlays a ...

Noldus recently developed a new feature in EthoVision 3.0: mobility detection. This parameter can be used to score the behavior of animals in the Porsolt Swim Test (PST) automatically. In ongoing research at Utrecht University, Saskia C. Berndsen and Laus ...

At the Game Conservancy Trust, we work on predatory mammal species that – almost by definition – occur at low density relative to their prey, are smart, and are wary of larger predators like man. They are also nocturnal. One ...

Cardiff University’s new brain imaging laboratory, CUBRIC, is a state-of-the-art facility for both cognitive neuroscience research and clinically based applications of multi-modal neuroimaging. It houses a GE Signa HDx 3-Tesla MR system together with a 275-channel Magnetoencephalography (MEG) system from ...

The MRC Institute of Hearing Research is studying the brain networks involved in covert spatial orienting of attention across visual and auditory modalities using an fMRI scanner in the Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre at the University of Nottingham. ...

At the EIS we are committed to providing state-of-the art facilities for elite athletes so that their training can have the maximum benefit. Using the SIMI Motion, Twinner and VidBack systems we have equipped our new facility in Newcastle with ...

At the SRU The Observer system has been used in two ways. Firstly it is an ideal tool for quantifying the performance of the whole team and allows us to identify strengths and weaknesses. Crucially, performance assessment can be linked ...

A planned approach Tracksys have provided The Observer and cameras to Prof. Clayton and Dr Emery for many years. Recently, as their groups have expanded and moved to new facilities, Tracksys has planned and installed their video systems. Currently there ...

The effectiveness of visual advertising is influenced by a range of factors including content, location, height and image size, as well as the type of product and the client base for that product. At ID Magasin we use  to collect ...

Jane Harris of Kepwick Ecological Services works with Natural England to provide annual counts of rare Barbastelle bats at their maternity roost in Paston Great Barn in Norfolk. The Barbastelle is regarded as a woodland specialist roosting mainly in trees ...

The eMotion laboratory at Glasgow Caledonian University was developed to study human emotion. as many methods of studying arousal and emotion involve invasive techniques, the laboratory is designed to maintain a high level of ecological validity by using technology that ...

In the last decade there have been a number of potentially significant technological innovations in qualitative marketing research. This study examined how recent technological innovations in one area – that of multimedia analysis – offers new scope to market researchers ...

Theme was used to question the assumed direct effect of testosterone on men’s sexual behaviour. A co-occurrence of testosterone peaks and sexual activity was observed more often in prospective fathers than in men who had no partner or did not ...

Rats have a complex repertoire of social behaviours. In their natural habitat they live in groups, but may share resources such as food and water. In laboratory situations in the presence of a receptive female, male rats rapidly develop combative ...

The latest addition to the EthoVision product range is EthoVision XT, which is capable of tracking the nose point and tail base point of rats and mice. This feature makes EthoVision XT especially suitable for the object recognition and location ...

I first became aware of The Observer when I met Bill Budenberg at the BPS Developmental Conference in 1996. At the time I was working on videos of children’s gaze when crossing roads. In 2002 I launched into a major ...

Maternal separation of rat pups is an ethopharmacologically validated model of anxiety and is measured by the duration and frequency of ultrasound vocalizations (USVs) made by the pups during this separation. These cries occur between 35 and 45 kHz, and ...

In the field, grasshopper nymphs may disperse from ‘spatially hostile’ homogeneous environments to heterogeneous habitats (longer grass) where there is adequate cover from predation or inclement weather. However, it is difficult to assess the velocity of walking and jumping movements ...

The tropical barnacle, Balanus amphitrite, is an economically important fouling species (it settles on natural and artificial submerged surfaces) with a short generation time and larvae that are relatively easy to culture in the laboratory. These attributes have contributed to ...

Bowling speeds vary between 75 and 100mph, leaving batsmen with less that 0.5 sec. to react after the ball is released. This study investigated the visual cues that top- and lower-order batsmen use during a bowlers run-up and also the ...

At the Natural Resources Institute (NRI) of the University of Greenwich EthoVision is being used as a tool to understand the chemical ecology and behaviour of various insect pests.This includes the chemical ecology of predator-prey interactions between Prostephanus truncatus and ...

Quantitative gait analysis is useful in objective assessment of walking ability as well as identifying the underlying causes for walking abnormalities in patients with cerebral palsy, Parkinson disease, stroke, head or spinal cord injury, and other neuromuscular problems. Over the ...