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Ethical Issues Regarding the Use of Invertebrates in Education - Backyard Brains
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Ethical Issues Regarding the Use of Invertebrates in Education. Redirected from Ethical Issues Regarding Using Invertebrates in Education. Some disagree, and that is important. Our methods raise many ethical questions including. Are animal experiments for educational purposes valid? What is the proper way to treat fellow creatures of the Earth? Student consent of experiments. Please note that this is a research project designed for the purpose of improving education. You will benefit by gaining addit...
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Recommended Gear - Backyard Brains
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Do you have a neuroscience lab with some visitors coming, and you just want to show some action potentials? Are you a lecturer who wants to show some physiology during your talks? Or are you a high school/university lab teacher and want to run a neuroscience workshop? Here we humbly break down what we recommend you can do with our equipment and experiments. 1 If you are doing a 10 minute quick demo for lab visitors or a brain awareness event. The best demo's are:. For these experiments, you need:. 3 If y...
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3D Printing Tips from Users - Backyard Brains
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3D Printing Tips from Users. Note: This is still being built. Come back often. If you want to take our open-source stl and print it, go ahead! Here are some examples: RS of PSU printed our manipulator on an XX Machine in ABS plastic. He noted the pieces had to be sanded, but if you print on a MakerBot Replicator, you should have to do any sanding to get the pieces to fit. We are unsure at the moment whether this is difference in how stl files are sliced into gcode for difference machines.
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How to Care for Your Cockroaches - Backyard Brains
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How to Care for Your Cockroaches. 2 Fill the bottom of the terrarium with soil. We use unfertilized potting soil we buy from the local hardware store for $1 per 5 lbs, but honestly, dirt from outside your house will work. The cockroaches enjoy burrowing under the soil. 3 Throw in some toilet paper rolls and wood scraps for them to play in. Below is a movie of a healthy sustainable cockroach colony. You can listen to their pitter-patter at nights when they are most active. If live in a cold climate and ha...
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Cricket Leg Electrode Placement - Backyard Brains
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Cricket Leg Electrode Placement. We have recently found, that if you have a little bit of coxa remaining on the cut cricket leg, you have dramatically improved signal quality (it has to do with signal referencing. The coxa on a cricket is small, but with care, you can cut through it. You can also move your electrodes around to get different responses! Note: sometimes the spikes go away after a few minutes if you put an electrode in the coxa. This is possibly due to impeding oxygen flow.
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RoboRoach Surgery - Backyard Brains
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This page has a new and updated home. Please visit our page in the experiments section titled: Experiment: Neural Interface Surgery. Retrieved from " http:/ en.wiki.backyardbrains.com/index.php? This page was last modified on 6 December 2014, at 05:24. EMG SpikerBox Now Available. Measure Action Potentials in Human Muscles! Backyard Brains at SfN Booth #305, across from Nature Magazine. Insane in the Chromatophores. Protected under the Creative Common License [CC] [A] [SA].
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Extracting Audio Tracks from Movies - Backyard Brains
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Extracting Audio Tracks from Movies. If you have used your Smartphone camera to both capture video and the neural audio recording, here are ways you can rip and convert the audio files into .wav formats that you can then subject to neural analysis. If you have a Mac. Open your movie using Quicktime. Select File- - Export - - audio only. This was extract the audio track as a .m4a file. Open the .m4a file in Audacity. Ignore the error; it will still work. Select File- - Export - - .wav. If you have a PC.
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Data Analysis - Backyard Brains
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We’re busy working on improving our software (we’re hiring by the way), and we plan to keep making it easier to record and analyze your spikes. But, for right now, how do you get your spikes out of the SpikerBox and into your computer for data analysis? There are multiple options. 1 If you have an iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch. With our smartphone cable. You can interface the output of the SpikerBox to your iPhone, using our "Backyard Brains" app free download. 2 If you have an Android phone. While the BYB Neur...
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Spikes Library - Backyard Brains
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Here are some sample files you can analyze. All these data were recorded with SpikerBoxes. A short clip of a cockroach leg being brushed with a toothpick. Courtesy of Walton Jones. This is a recording of a Cricket Cercal Prep. Sometimes during recordings you will hear a very rapid discharge of spikes from a neuron. This is a 2-channel recording of spikes in an Earthworm. You can measure Conduction Velocity! Electrodes were 3 cm apart. Cockroach Leg Rhythmically Brushed. EEEG of Visual Cortex in Human.
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Some Readings - Backyard Brains
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We try our best to make our material easy to understand. If you want more neuroscience, here are some resources by our colleagues and friends:. Is geared toward elementary school students with a brand new book. On the function of neurons. The CK-12 Foundation has an open biology high school textbook. With a nice chapter on the nervous system. The Society for Neuroscience, the largest professional organization of neuroscience, has a free online book. Aimed at secondary school teachers and students.
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