Nutating Annular Cage for Measuring Motor Activity

22 March 1963

journal article
research article
Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science

Vol. 139 (3560) , 1224-1225
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.139.3560.1224

Abstract

The construction of an activity-measuring device that utilizes a nutating annular animal enclosure is described. The instrument converts motor activity to numerical scores. With mice, the logarithms of these scores assume a normal distribution. A second test occurring 1 day, week, or month after the first fails to exhibit any habituation of the animals.

Keywords

MOVEMENT