Matt Gaidica

Tumbly: An Open-Source Home-Cage Device for Time-Restricted Feeding in Mice

Tumbly is an open-source, automated device for time-restricted feeding in mice, validated to maintain body weight and food intake with low error rates.

FLEX-DBS: a flexible wireless platform for bilateral constant-current deep brain stimulation in freely moving rodents

FLEX-DBS is a wireless stimulator for bilateral DBS in rodents, offering programmable stimulation parameters and autonomous operation, with results showing increased immobility during high-amplitude stimulation.

Sex differences in exploration-exploitation strategies during home-cage decision making

In 136 mice on FED3 tasks, males showed slightly higher win-stay in all three choice tasks, with higher accuracy in a deterministic bandit but not a probabilistic one.

Biocosm: A Simulation Environment for Designing Energy-Constrained Ethological Sensors

This paper introduces a simulation framework for energy-constrained ethological sensors to evaluate how sensing policies affect data collection and behavioral inference.

Precisely-timed dopamine signals establish distinct kinematic representations of skilled movements

This study investigates how precisely-timed dopamine signals affect motor skill performance in rats during a complex reaching task, finding abrupt transitions in movement kinematics.

Interactions between motor thalamic field potentials and single unit spiking predict behavior in rats

The paper examines how motor thalamic field potentials and single unit spiking relate to behavior in rats during a task, finding task-related modulation of oscillation power and phase-spike timing relationships.