Video Tracking

LabState was originally designed to control devices for operant behavior. To expand the applications of LabState for the automated evaluation of behavior in a broader range of pre-clinical and neuroscience studies, advanced image analysis was added, allowing recording of locomotor activities, trajectories, global activities, and events.

The image analysis function can be used in the following experimental systems:

• tracking: locomotor Activity, conditioned place preference, shuttle box, etc.
• global activity: fear conditioning, forced swim test, tail suspension, etc.

• By using the method editor, you could collect a short period of tracking data separately into user-defined variables.
• You could also use the moving info (enter or leave a zone) to control devices or as events to be used by other systems (such as the neural data acquisition system – Plexon’s OmniPlex).