{"id":201970,"date":"2024-12-19T23:13:08","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T05:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/mousegoggles-offer-immersive-look-into-neural-activity"},"modified":"2024-12-19T23:13:08","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T05:13:08","slug":"mousegoggles-offer-immersive-look-into-neural-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/mousegoggles-offer-immersive-look-into-neural-activity","title":{"rendered":"MouseGoggles offer immersive look into neural activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mousegoggles-offer-immersive-look-into-neural-activity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to their genetic makeup, their ability to navigate mazes and their willingness to work for cheese, mice have long been a go-to model for behavioral and neurological studies.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, they have entered a new arena\u2014virtual reality\u2014and now Cornell researchers have built miniature VR headsets to immerse them more deeply in it.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s MouseGoggles\u2014yes, they look as cute as they sound\u2014were created using low-cost, off-the-shelf components, such as smartwatch displays and tiny lenses, and offer visual stimulation over a wide field of view while tracking the mouse\u2019s eye movements and changes in pupil size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to their genetic makeup, their ability to navigate mazes and their willingness to work for cheese, mice have long been a go-to model for behavioral and neurological studies. In recent years, they have entered a new arena\u2014virtual reality\u2014and now Cornell researchers have built miniature VR headsets to immerse them more deeply in it. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}