A Turntable Setup for Testing Visual and Tactile Grasping Movements in Non-human Primates.

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
Daniela BuchwaldHansjörg Scherberger

Abstract

Grasping movements are some of the most common movements primates do every day. They are important for social interactions as well as picking up objects or food. Usually, these grasping movements are guided by vision but proprioceptive and haptic inputs contribute greatly. Since grasping behaviors are common and easy to motivate, they represent an ideal task for understanding the role of different brain areas during planning and execution of complex voluntary movements in primates. For experimental purposes, a stable and repeatable presentation of the same object as well as the variation of objects is important in order to understand the neural control of movement generation. This is even more the case when investigating the role of different senses for movement planning, where objects need to be presented in specific sensory modalities. We developed a turntable setup for non-human primates (macaque monkeys) to investigate visually and tactually guided grasping movements with an option to easily exchange objects. The setup consists of a turntable that can fit six different objects and can be exchanged easily during the experiment to increase the number of presented objects. The object turntable is connected to a stepper motor t...Continue Reading

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