We are developing a semi-naturalistic homecage setting that enables continuously tracking the behaviours spontaneously expressed by pups, at both the individual and group level. By combining this behavioural data with chronic wireless electrophysiological recordigs from the brain, we can relate those behaviours to the development of spatial cognition and its underlying neural circuitry.

This paradigm will permit us to better characterize how cognitive development in the early-life is influenced by the rearing environment.