Abstract

Despite all that we have learned about the nervous system, from molecules to networks, we still cannot draw the schematics of, for example, curiosity. Nevertheless, bridging the gap between psychology and biology is a key goal for the neuroscience community (Human Brain Project, n.d.). In order to actually link a behavioral function to its underlying neural mechanisms, animal models must be free from anesthesia and constraints, thus allowing neural circuits to be probed during the behaviors that engage them. Hence, bridging the psychology-biology gap depends upon freely moving animals (Figure 14.1). Figure 14.1