Results: Rats Acquire the Skilled Reaching Task Quickly Once Acclimated to the Apparatus
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This method builds upon established rat skilled reaching protocols to automate training and testing providing an efficient means to acquire large data sets relatively quickly. It minimizes experimenter effort while allowing three-dimensional recon
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Rodent skilled reaching is commonly used to study dexterous skills, but requires significant time and effort to implement the task and analyze the behavior. We describe an automated version of skilled reaching with motion tracking and three-dimensional reconstruction of reach trajectories.