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JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE METHODS
Volume 172, Issue 2, Pages 201-214Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2008.04.029
Keywords
implanted electrodes; multi-electrode arrays; chronic recording; free-roaming; marmoset; auditory cortex
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- NIDCD NIH HHS [R01 DC005808-05, DC005808, R01 DC005808] Funding Source: Medline
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Many behaviors of interest to neurophysiologists are difficult to study under laboratory conditions because such behaviors are often inhibited when an animal is restrained and socially isolated. Even under the best conditions, such behaviors may be sparse enough as to require long duration neural recordings or simultaneous recording of multiple neurons to gather a sufficient amount of data for analysis. We have developed a preparation for chronic, multi-electrode recordings in the auditory cortex of marmoset monkeys, small primates, as well as techniques for neurophysiological recordings when the animals are free-roaming while singly caged in the environment of the monkey colony. In this report, we describe our solutions to overcome the problems associated with chronic recordings in free-roaming animals, where three-dimensional movements present particular challenges. (c) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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