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A Short Review of Some Aspects of Computational Neuroethology

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Understanding the Brain Function and Emotions (IWINAC 2019)

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Abstract

Computational Neuroethology comprises a wide variety of devices, computational tools and techniques used in studies aiming to understand the neural substrate of the observable behavior. In this short review we focus on the description of available computational tools in a landscape of resources that is steadily growing as the scientific community recognizes this Computational Neuroethology as one of the frontiers of scientific endeavor. We comment on the biological basis and some examples of studies reported in the literature before providing a description and taxonomy of resources and tools.

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    http://www.ansc.purdue.edu/USDA-LBRU/vdb/video3.htm.

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    http://www.vision.caltech.edu/Video_Datasets/CRIM13/CRIM13/Main.html.

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    http://cbcl.mit.edu/software-datasets/mouse/.

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    https://www.harvardapparatus.com/smart-video-tracking-system.html.

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    https://www.noldus.com/animal-behavior-research/products/ethovision-xt.

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Graña, M., de Lope Asiain, J. (2019). A Short Review of Some Aspects of Computational Neuroethology. In: Ferrández Vicente, J., Álvarez-Sánchez, J., de la Paz López, F., Toledo Moreo, J., Adeli, H. (eds) Understanding the Brain Function and Emotions. IWINAC 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11486. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19591-5_28

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