When commercially available behavioural testing equipment is out of reach, some researchers get creative and build their own.
Gelareh Modara
That’s exactly what Gelareh Modara, a Master’s student in Dr. Manu Madhav’s NC4 Lab and Dr. Jason Snyder’s Lab, set out to do with NC4 Touch, a new open-source touchscreen chamber for rodents, designed to support cognitive and behavioural neuroscience research.
Originally inspired by a research question about how early-life sensory exposure shapes adult learning, the project soon expanded into something broader: technological development.
