Establishing less invasive procedures of neuro-recordings from experimental animals including rodents and birds

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25590202
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Experimental psychology
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: OKANOYA Kazuo 東京大学, 総合文化研究科, 教授 (30211121)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): IKKATAI Yuko 独立行政法人理化学研究所, 脳科学総合研究センター, 研究員 (00709214)
• Research Collaborator: MATSUMOTO Yui 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科 ; ONO Satoko 東京大学, 大学院総合文化研究科
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 非侵襲 / 電場電位 / 事象関連電位 / 聴覚 / 齧歯類 / 鳥類

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The study was planned to establish non-invasive brain recording procedures in rodents and birds. As a result, we succeeded in recording brain evoked auditory response from the scalp and using it to estimate auditory sensitivity. As another result, we succeeded in recording local field potentials from bird auditory areas with invasive method. However, we were able to obtain miss match negativity like response from the recordings.

Free Research Field

生物心理学