A computer approach to measuring shuttle box activity and conditioned place preference.
A procedure is described for measuring locomotor activity and place preference using an Apple II + computer. The interface consists of a single integrated circuit connected by a 16 pin jumper cable to the Apple's game I/O connector. This approach can be easily adapted to provide sequential reading of one to seven input lines from up to 16 different test boxes. The software is written in basic and doesn't require any knowledge of memory addressing or machine language programming.
D000818:Animals; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003201:Computers; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological; D008838:Microcomputers; D009043:Motor Activity; D009482:Neurophysiology / Q000295:instrumentation*; D051381:Rats; D012984:Software