Mouse in VR Maze

From "Intracellular dynamics of hippocampal place cells during virtual navigation." By Christopher D. Harvey, Forrest Collman, Daniel A. Dombeck & David W. Tank. Nature, Vol. 461 No. 7266, October 14, 2009.

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Science & Technology

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• science
• video game

[ghos7bear]

Why there is no weapon pickups?

[mrjimmyos]

Yeah, that poor mouse will be terribly bored until they hook up quake to that display

[crlums]

@theglobehopper actually, the scientists use this for a very clear cause. They used the virtual environment to explore the behavior of place neurons. Place neurons play a key role in mammals to determine their spatial location. They only fire during motion though. We do not have the tech to record from cells that are moving. The virtual environment allowed the cells to activate without actually moving so they could be studied. Research from this was published in Nature.

[MrVirajSinha]

@theglobehopper are you religious?

[MrVirajSinha]

Either they do it to mice, or we dont learn anything. If you're going to be an "animal rights activist", you get to not benefit from all the technologies humanity has developed as a result of experiments involving animals.

the same way fighting a war isn't "cruelty to soldiers"

[pheonex]

@BBQwatchman you know it's skull is chopped off right?

[idreable]

poor mouse ;'(

[MrMakaval]

that is a big shit... STOP ANIMAL SLAVERY

[BBQwatchman]

@theglobehopper how is this animal cruelity? In what way are they abusing this mouse? Its running on it's own accord and is navigating though an artificial environment! It can choose not to run, but it chooses it. it becomes animal cruelty once they FORCE it to run, using any means necessary.

[Anigrid]

Голова мыши удерживается в неподвижном состоянии держателями, которые в свою очередь содержат зонды, проникающие глубоко в мозг и считывающий информацию, эта мышь скорее всего бегает последние минуты

[theglobehopper]

I agree with those below. Animal cruelty is rarely justified and this IS DEFINITELY NOT further any cause. The 'scientists' here should be reclassified as animal tormentors and be reported to the authorities

[theglobehopper]

I agree with those below. Animal cruelty is rarely justified and this IS DEFINITELY NOT further any cause. The 'scientists' here should be reclassified as animal tormentors and be reported to the authorities