Our synapses sensed excitement
Our synapses sensed excitement!
We concluded our launch sequence last week, with a tech exhibition at the Sense2Synapse conference. Hosted at The Rockefeller University in Manhattan, the conference brought together regional neuroscience researchers to share ideas about how the brain processes external sensations. Sanworks was doubly fortunate - our exhibit was featured immediately beside the only source of coffee, and directly across from a research poster by Paul Masset, featuring data acquired with our systems. Paul is using Bpod to measure how rodents invest their time in the belief that they decided correctly, when making decisions based on strong and weak sensory evidence.
Our table featured a live demonstration of Pulse Pal 2. We powered two Pulse Pal 2's (A and B) from a 10,000mAh USB charger, and connected one of A's output channels to one of B's trigger channels, and B's output channels to an oscilloscope. This exhibited both hardware triggering and pulse train playback, in a stand-alone configuration completely isolated from electric mains.
We also engaged conference-goers with Bpod 0.5 beta, running a two-choice auditory decision making task with the mouse behavior box. The Bpod demo was well received, and reinforced our vision for the platform's future growth towards a general and open toolkit for constructing precisely timed behavioral experiments.
Special thanks those of you who visited us at Sense2Synapse! We look forward to working with you to advance your science, and to another great conference next year.