Pentax f1.2 super sensitive, low light level high acuity professional lens.
HVS Image Systems USB 2.0 high resolution, high speed camera for rapid set up and fast, accurate, reliable tracking. USB 2.0 Interface is combined with high performance CMOS sensors giving three times the resolution and ten times the speed of previous systems.
USB 2.0 video booster cable with built-in, Booster Chip Technology and built-in custom ASIC to regenerate transmitted USB signals. Fully Plug-n-Play - no drivers or software.
Sony Vaio E-Series with large high contrast 39.5 cm, 15.5" screen and larger touchpad for more control and the backlit keyboard for easy lab use. High performance dedicated GPU and multithreaded Intel® Core™ i3 and i5 processors.
The HVS Image USB Foot Switch provides a more comfortable and convenient way start each trial than ever before. No drivers are needed and the switch has been designed to have exactly the right sensitivity (with a actuation at approx. 8mm / 0.315in) to avoid actuation delays. It has an extremely long long life span of over 1 million operations to last as long as you need it. The lead is180cm / 70.87 in to maximise your options when setting up your lab.
The all new, easy to use HVS Image 2012 Software for Morris Water Maze, Plus Maze, Elevated Plus Maze, T-Maze, Y Maze, Barnes Maze and Open Field. Fully data compatible with all HVS Image Systems and easier to use than ever.
Super System
Pentax f1.2 super sensitive, low light level high acuity professional lens and HVS Image Systems digital zoom.
HVS Image Systems USB 3.0 ultra high resolution, ultra high speed megapixel color camera for rapid set up and super fast, super accurate, reliable tracking. USB 3.0 allows easy installation of the camera, plug & play as well as superfast data transfer rates of 400 MByte/s. Power is supplied via the USB bus, hence an extra power cable is obsolete. The innovative pixel design allows outstanding performance and even in difficult lighting conditions due to extreme light sensitivity. Additional innovative features include Multi-AOI mode, Global Shutter and a fast frame rate emphasize the camera’s suitability for video tracking in the behavioural field.
USB 3.0 video booster cable with built-in, Booster Chip Technology and built-in custom ASIC to regenerate transmitted USB signals. Fully Plug-n-Play - no drivers or software. FCC Class B certified. CE approved for use in Europe.
Sony 24" display touch screen Workstation PC with quad core CPU and hyper performance GPU.
The HVS Image USB Foot Switch provides a more comfortable and convenient way start each trial than ever before. No drivers are needed and the switch has been designed to have exactly the right sensitivity (with a actuation at approx. 8mm / 0.315in) to avoid actuation delays. It has an extremely long long life span of over 1 million operations to last as long as you need it. The lead is180cm / 70.87 in to maximise your options when setting up your lab.
The all new, easy to use HVS Image 2012 PRO Software for Morris Water Maze, Plus Maze, Elevated Plus Maze, T-Maze, Y Maze, Barnes Maze and Open Field. Fully data compatible with all HVS Image Systems and easier to use than ever. HVS Image 2012 PRO takes things much, much further. Additional features of the PRO system include
DataFirst System with MP4 video recording of trials, data audit capabilities (optional), Live Lab-book (full recording of all your trials and lab data off-line), automatic data backup, multi-user set up (with separate air-tight data storage and separate data audit trials) and digital signing of data.
AlwaysOn Service: You are always on our minds! We back up all your data for you automatically. We also offer instant system replacement (If you have problems during a trial or study we send you a replacement system by expedited courier) and on-site service - if we can't solve your problems (or tell you how to) and the replacement system does not we will visit your lab to solve them.
Custom analysis module(s): If there is a form of data analysis to you think of or find that we don't currently support we can create a custom anaylis module for you to solve your problem and answer your questions.
The Morris water maze is one of the most widely used tasks in behavioral neuroscience for studying the psychological processes and neural mechanisms of spatial learning and memory. The basic task is very simple. Animals, usually rats or mice, are placed in a large circular pool of water and required to escape from water onto a hidden platform whose location can normally be identified only using spatial memory . There are no local cues indicating where the platform is located. Conceptually, the task derives from place cells that are neurons in the hippocampus which identify or represent points in space in an environment (O'Keefe, 1976).
It was developed by Richard Morris at the University of St Andrews in Scotland and first described in two publications in the early 1980s (Morris, 1981; Morris et al., 1982). Place navigation in the watermaze is now often used as a general assay of cognitive function (Brandeis et al., 1989), for example for testing the impact of various disturbances of the nervous system (e.g. animal models of stroke (Nunn et al., 1994), aging (Gallagher and Rapp, 1997), neurodegenerative disease (Hsiao et al., 1996), or the potential impact of novel therapeutic drugs (D'Hooge and De Deyn, 2001). The task has also inspired computational neuroscientists and roboticists interested in navigation (Krichmar et al., 2005).
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