Visiomode

Visiomode enables development and execution of rodent touchscreen-based behavioral assays to quantify cognitive, decision-making, and sensorimotor functions.

Key Features:

• Touchscreen-based task generation: Implements touchscreen stimulus presentation and response recording for diverse behavioral tasks, including stimulus-response and visual discrimination paradigms.
• Raspberry Pi operant chamber integration: Integrates with Raspberry Pi hardware to operate operant chamber systems for stimulus control and response detection.
• Plug-in architecture: Provides a plug-in system to extend and customize experimental logic and behavioral task implementations.
• Support for multiple response modalities: Supports motor response modes and switching such as nose poke versus reaching to capture different sensorimotor behaviors.
• Rapid sensorimotor learning assessment: Enables implementation of protocols for rapid sensorimotor learning measurements and task adaptation.
• Diverse behavioral task repertoire: Facilitates creation of simple and complex tasks to probe a wide range of cognitive and sensorimotor processes.

Scientific Applications:

• Cognitive behavior assessment: Quantifies learning, memory, and executive function in rodent models using touchscreen tasks.
• Decision-making studies: Tests choice behavior and decision processes under controlled stimulus conditions.
• Sensorimotor learning: Measures acquisition and adaptation of sensorimotor responses, including rapid learning paradigms.
• Visual discrimination and perception: Probes visual processing and perceptual learning using controlled visual stimuli.
• Disease-model phenotyping: Assesses cognitive and sensorimotor deficits in neurological and psychiatric disease models.

Methodology:

Implements touchscreen stimulus presentation and response recording within Raspberry Pi–based operant chambers and uses a plug-in architecture to generate and customize behavioral tasks.