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A mechatronic platform for behavioral analysis on nonhuman primates

2012; Imperial College Press; Volume: 11; Issue: 01 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1142/s0219635212500069

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Fabrizio Taffoni, Massimo Vespignani, Domenico Formica, G. Cavallo, Eugenia Polizzi di Sorrentino, Gloria Sabbatini, Valentina Truppa, Marco Mirolli, Gianluca Baldassarre, Elisabetta Visalberghi, Flavio Keller, Eugenio Guglielmelli,

Neural dynamics and brain function

Journal of Integrative NeuroscienceVol. 11, No. 01, pp. 87-101 (2012) ArticlesNo AccessA mechatronic platform for behavioral analysis on nonhuman primatesFabrizio Taffoni, Massimo Vespignani, Domenico Formica, Giuseppe Cavallo, Eugenia Polizzi Di Sorrentino, Gloria Sabbatini, Valentina Truppa, Marco Mirolli, Gianluca Baldassarre, Elisabetta Visalberghi, Flavio Keller, and Eugenio GuglielmelliFabrizio TaffoniLaboratory of Biomedical Robotics and Biomicrosystems, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, 00128 Rome, ItalyCorresponding author., Massimo VespignaniBiorobotics Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, Domenico FormicaLaboratory of Biomedical Robotics and Biomicrosystems, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, 00128 Rome, Italy, Giuseppe CavalloMasmec spa, 70026 Modugno (Ba), Italy, Eugenia Polizzi Di SorrentinoUnit of Cognitive Primatology, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, 00197 Rome, Italy, Gloria SabbatiniUnit of Cognitive Primatology, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, 00197 Rome, Italy, Valentina TruppaUnit of Cognitive Primatology, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, 00197 Rome, Italy, Marco MirolliLaboratory of Computational Embodied Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, 00197 Rome, Italy, Gianluca BaldassarreLaboratory of Computational Embodied Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, 00197 Rome, Italy, Elisabetta VisalberghiUnit of Cognitive Primatology, Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, 00197 Rome, Italy, Flavio KellerLaboratory of Developmental Neuroscience, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, 00128 Rome, Italy, and Eugenio GuglielmelliLaboratory of Biomedical Robotics and Biomicrosystems, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, 00128 Rome, Italyhttps://doi.org/10.1142/S0219635212500069Cited by:11 PreviousNext AboutSectionsPDF/EPUB ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsRecommend to Library ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail AbstractIn this work we present a new mechatronic platform for measuring behavior of nonhuman primates, allowing high reprogrammability and providing several possibilities of interactions. 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