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Reinforcement Schedules
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2024
Positive reinforcement is a powerful method for teaching new behaviors to both animals and humans. B.F. Skinner demonstrated this with his experiments using rats in a Skinner box. When a rat pressed a lever, it received a food pellet. This immediate reward encouraged the rat to repeat the behavior. This method, where a reward follows every instance of the behavior, is known as continuous reinforcement. It is highly effective for establishing new behaviors quickly. Once a behavior is learned,...
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A Do-it-yourself System for Scheduled Feeding of Laboratory Rodents in Their Home Cage
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2025
This paper details the design, assembly, and protocol for an automated feeding system along with an alternative lid and cage modification that can be implemented on standard rodent cages with minimal modifications for tethered optogenetic or fiber photometry experiments. The feeding system offers a cost-effective tool for timed feeding and/or caloric restriction.
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Immunocytochemistry-Based Imaging for Visualizing Pediatric Glioma Cell Migration
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2025
Source: Pericoli, G. et. al., Live-3D-Cell Immunocytochemistry Assays of Pediatric Diffuse Midline Glioma. J. Vis. Exp. (2021)This video demonstrates live cell imaging to observe pediatric diffuse midline glioma cell migration using immunohistochemical labeling with anti-CD44 antibodies.
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Methods to Test Visual Attention Online
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Cited by 26 •
2015
To replicate laboratory settings, online data collection methods for visual tasks require tight control over stimulus presentation. We outline methods for the use of a web application to collect performance data on two tests of visual attention.
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Using Looming Visual Stimuli to Evaluate Mouse Vision
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Cited by 12 •
2019
To examine mouse vision, we conducted a looming test. Mice were placed in a large square arena with a monitor on its ceiling. The looming visual stimulus consistently evoked freezing or flight reactions in the mice.
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A Visual Schedule places temporal information outside the person’s immediate mental workspace. Instead of relying only on working memory to retain what happens next, the individual can consult an external sequence of cues. This can make activities easier to organize and transitions easier to anticipate, helping researchers examine how externalized information supports cognition.
Predictable cues give individuals advance information about upcoming activities and changes. That advance notice can support anticipation, reduce uncertainty during transitions, and help organize behavior when beginning a task. In neuroscience research, these effects make visual schedules useful for examining how structured information influences task initiation, temporal organization, and adaptive behavior.
Images, symbols, and words provide alternative ways to represent activities and their sequence. Their use allows a schedule to present temporal information through visual forms rather than relying solely on internal recall. Comparing these forms can help researchers investigate how visual information relates to attention, learning, communication, and the perception of time.
Researchers can use schedule-based tasks to examine planning, attention, learning, and executive function. The sequence of activities also provides a way to study time perception and the ability to initiate tasks. Because behavior can be observed across organized routines, the approach connects cognitive processes with practical measures of adaptive behavior.
Begin by identifying the activities or events that need to be organized, then represent them with images, symbols, words, or other visual cues. Arrange those representations to show their sequence and present the display during the relevant routine or task. Observing anticipation, transitions, task initiation, and behavior can reveal how the structure affects performance.
The approach is useful when individuals benefit from clearer support for communication, daily routines, transitions, or behavioral organization. In developmental and neurological contexts, a schedule can externalize information that may otherwise place demands on working memory. Researchers and clinicians can then examine how predictable visual support relates to participation, task initiation, and adaptive behavior.
Observations may show whether individuals anticipate upcoming activities, initiate tasks more readily, maintain attention, or organize behavior across a routine. These outcomes provide evidence about how visual information influences cognition and adaptive behavior. The same framework can also support investigation of learning, communication, executive function, and time perception in structured settings.