Novel Tool Development and the Dynamics of Control: The Rodent Touchscreen Operant Chamber as a Case Study.
In the quest to discover the neural bases of cognition, rigorous behavioral tools are equally as important as sophisticated tools for neural intervention. This paper evaluates several episodes in the development of a novel behavioral tool for rodent cognitive testing, the rodent touchscreen operant...
| Published in: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 89; no. 5; pp. 1203 - 1213 |
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Dec2022
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