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Open-Source Joystick Manipulandum for Decision-Making, Reaching, and Motor Control Studies in Mice

Parley P. Belsey, Mark A. Nicholas and Eric A. Yttri
eNeuro 24 February 2020, 7 (2) ENEURO.0523-19.2020; https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0523-19.2020
Parley P. Belsey
1Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Eric A. Yttri
1Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
2Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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DOI 
https://doi.org/10.1523/ENEURO.0523-19.2020
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32094292
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History 
  • Received December 12, 2019
  • Revision received January 29, 2020
  • Accepted January 31, 2020
  • Published online February 24, 2020.
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Copyright © 2020 Belsey et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium provided that the original work is properly attributed.

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  1. Parley P. Belsey1,
  2. Mark A. Nicholas1 and
  3. Eric A. Yttri1,2
  1. 1Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
  2. 2Carnegie Mellon Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
  1. Correspondence should be addressed to Eric A. Yttri at eyttri{at}andrew.cmu.edu.
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Author contributions

  1. Author contributions: P.P.B., M.A.N., and E.A.Y. designed research; P.P.B. and M.A.N. performed research and analyzed data; M.A.N. wrote and developed acquisition and analysis software; P.P.B. and E.A.Y. wrote the paper.

Disclosures

  • The authors declare no competing financial interests.

  • This work was supported by the Whitehall Foundation, the Carnegie Mellon University Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, and the Charles E. Kaufman Foundation, a supporting organization of The Pittsburgh Foundation. P.P.B. was supported by donors to the Undergraduate Research Office-Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship at Carnegie Mellon University.

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  • Whitehall Foundation (Whitehall Foundation, Inc.)

  • Charles E. Kaufman Foundation, a supporting organization of The Pittsburgh Foundation

  • CMU Summer Undergrad Research Fellowship

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