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Chapters
- 00:04Introduction
- 00:50Building the Video Camera
- 03:32Designing the Operant Conditioning Protocol and Recording Videos of Animals
- 04:14Analyzing Videos with DeepLabCut
- 05:50Identifying Video Segments of Interest
- 06:37Results: Camera performance and Video Tracking to Complement Analysis of Operant Behaviors
- 08:03Conclusion
This protocol describes how to build a small and versatile video camera, and how to use videos obtained from it to train a neural network to track the position of an animal inside operant conditioning chambers. This is a valuable complement to standard analyses of data logs obtained from operant conditioning tests.
