Open science and data sharing in cognitive neuroscience with MouseBytes and MouseBytes.

🤖 Plain-English Summary

Open access to rodent cognitive data has lagged behind the rapid generation of large open-access datasets in other areas of neuroscience, such as neuroimaging and genomics. Here we present the architecture, structure, and the essential infrastructure behind MouseBytes.

🔑 Key Findings

• One contributing factor has been the absence of uniform standardization in experiments and data output, an issue that has particularly plagued studies in animal models.
• Touchscreen-automated cognitive testing of animal models allows standardized outputs that are compatible with open-access sharing.
• Touchscreen datasets can be combined with different neuro-technologies such as fiber photometry, miniscopes, optogenetics, and MRI to evaluate the relationship between neural activity and behavior.

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