Table 1 Performance of the head holder in two studies [8, 15]
From: A self-adjusting head holder without ear-bars for guinea pigs
Study | Number of animals | Minimal body weight (g) | Maximal body weight (g) | Duration of the experiment (h) | Total number of recorded units | Total number of single units | Duration of stable unit recording (h) | Number of mapped sites per animal | Distance between mapped sites (μm) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Anatomy of cortical representations | 41 | 360 | 760 | 1–2 | – | – | – | ≥ 20 | ~ 300 |
Recording of cortical neuronal activity | 38 | 380 | 940 | 10 on average | 291 | 94 | 0.5–3.5 | – | – |