BoniniLab - Neuroethology of Non-Human Primates
Prof. Luca Bonini
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| The work of our group consists in developing, leveraging and combining forefront behavioral and neurophysiological techniques for an ethologically relevant and, as much as possible, unconstrained investigation of primate brain. Understanding the brain during natural behavior is crucial to achieve ecologically valid discoveries about neural circuit functions and disfunctions in neurological and neuropsychiatric diseases. To achieve these goals, in addition to state-of-the-art neurophysiological methods, we employ state-of-the art techniques for recording several neurons simultaneously with wireless technologies, while video monitoring the animals’ free behavior in both individual and social settings with multi-camera systems. |
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| Main reserch lines | ||
| ▪ Neuro-ethological study of free motor behaviour ▪ Neuro-ethological study of the neural substrates of peripersonal space ▪ Neural coding of one's own and others' actions during social interaction ▪ Characterisation of basal cortico-ganglionic circuits during manual actions and social interactions ▪ Development of devices for semi-chronic recording from the free monkey ▪ Neural bases of visual awareness in primates |
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| Techniques used | ||
| ▪ Extracellular recording of single neurons, multi-unit activity and local field potentials ▪ Wireless extracellular recording ▪ Monitoring and tracking animal behaviour with multi-camera systems ▪ Intracortical electrical microstimulation ▪ Microfluidics |
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| Main equipments available | ||
| ▪ SIMI multi-camera system for marker-based and markerless tracking ▪ Deuteron neural data logging systems ▪ 128/256-channel Open Ephys recording systems ▪ Blackrock 96-channel recording system (head-stage tethered and wireless) ▪ Systema Plexon Digital 32 channels ▪ NeuroEthoRoom |
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