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. 2024 Sep 18;18:1450540. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2024.1450540

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Illustrations of the semi-automated VBS. (A) A large rat cage was placed on the top of a grid of 24 RFID readers and its walls were topped by extra high white walls. A camera was placed on the top of the cage and aligned with the edge of the vertical partition (IR transparent, dark) of the burrow/open areas (drawn on SketchUp.com). (B) A schematic top view of the VBS cage with B1: one-tunnel burrow, B2: two-tunnel burrows, w: external water bottle with spout inside the cage, *food access zone with outside food chow reservoir. (C) Still frame of a synchronized video with RFID tag detection for each mouse (superimposed blue, white, yellow, and pink triangle symbols).