Choose your level. Choose how you use it.
Core: Tracking and conventional analysis for common behavioral tasks (software).
Insight: Everything in Core plus deeper analyses revealing more about how the animal searched, moved and performed the task (choose software or complete laboratory system).
Strategy: Everything in Insight plus automatic identification of higher-level patterns and strategies (choose software or complete laboratory system).
Core
Tracking and conventional analysis for everyday behavioral research.
HVS Image 2027 Core provides precise video tracking and the established measures and analyses used in common behavioral tasks, including the Morris water maze and other common assays.
Software: $3,495
Run it on a suitable computer with your own camera and experimental apparatus.
Insight
Go beyond conventional measures and examine the data in greater depth.
HVS Image 2027 Insight includes everything in Core, together with deeper analyses that can reveal aspects of search, movement, spatial preference and task performance that conventional measures can miss.
Specialist capabilities include our deeper Morris water maze analyses. Ask about deeper analyses for additional behavioral tasks.
Software: $9,995; Complete system: $12,314.60
Choose software for your existing equipment, or a complete HVS Image system supplied configured for your laboratory and ready to use on arrival.
Strategy
Identifies higher-level patterns for you.
HVS Image 2027 Strategy includes everything in Core and Insight and adds automatic identification of patterns and strategies.
Strategy Identification includes Morris water maze navigation and search strategies. Ask about additional behavioral tasks.
Software: $29,995; Complete system: $32,314.60
Choose software for your existing equipment, or a complete HVS Image system supplied configured for your laboratory and ready to use on arrival.
All HVS Image 2027 levels include support, updates and access to raw time-stamped position data as well as exportable results.
Software prices shown in US$. The same number applies in CA$, £ or €.
Detailed Comparison:
| Analysis | Core | Insight | Strategy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Escape latency / trial duration | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Path length / distance travelled | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Target-quadrant occupancy: % time in target quadrant | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Target-quadrant occupancy: % path in target quadrant | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quadrant occupancy: % time in each quadrant | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Quadrant occupancy: % path in each quadrant | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Platform / target-location crossings | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Average speed | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Path efficiency ratio / directness | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Heading angle / heading error | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Corridor measures | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Cone measures | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Close-encounter count | ✓ | ✓ | |
| % time in close encounter zone (near the platform/target position) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Latency to close encounter with platform/target position | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Path length to close encounter with platform/target position | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Gallagher global (average proximity to target) for platform/target position | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Gallagher cumulative proximity / search error for platform/target position | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Gallagher by segment (average distance to platform/target for each 1 second) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Chaining: total angular span in chaining annulus | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Chaining: angular span of largest episode | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Circling: numbers of circles, clockwise and counter-clockwise | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Thigmotaxis: % time in peripheral zone | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Thigmotaxis: % path in peripheral zone | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Thigmotaxis: total angular span of wall-hugging behavior | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Thigmotaxis: angular span of largest episode of wall-hugging behavior | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Circular zone occupancy, equally spaced | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Circular zone occupancy, equal-area | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Quadrant entries: number of visits | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Quadrant entries: sequence of visits | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Floating / inactivity time | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Active speed (excluding floating or inactivity) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Detailed temporal / time-slice analysis | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Close-encounter count (number of passes close) for other calibrated positions, including former platform position (e.g. for control, reversal learning, dual-strategy trials) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| % time close to other calibrated positions, including former platform position (e.g. for control, reversal learning, dual-strategy trials) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Latency to close encounters with other calibrated positions, including former platform position (e.g. for control, reversal learning, dual-strategy trials) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Exact crossings of other calibrated positions, including former platform position (e.g. for control, reversal learning, dual-strategy trials) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Gallagher global (average proximity to target) for other calibrated positions, including former platform position (e.g. for control, reversal learning, dual-strategy trials) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Gallagher cumulative proximity / search error for other calibrated positions, including former platform position (e.g. for control, reversal learning, dual-strategy trials) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Latency to first reach other calibrated positions, including former platform position (e.g. for control, reversal learning, dual-strategy trials) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Distance/path to first reach other calibrated positions, including former platform position (e.g. for control, reversal learning, dual-strategy trials) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Automated behavior/navigation/search-strategy identification | ✓ | ||
| Multiple behaviors/strategies within a trial | ✓ | ||
| Direct path to target | ✓ | ||
| Direct path to target after initial orientation | ✓ | ||
| Direct path to target after leaving the wall | ✓ | ||
| Direct path to close encounter | ✓ | ||
| Direct path to close encounter after initial orientation | ✓ | ||
| Direct path to close encounter after leaving the wall | ✓ | ||
| Direct paths to close encounters with other calibrated positions, for example previous platform or target position (e.g. for control, reversal learning, dual-strategy trials) | ✓ | ||
| Direct paths to close encounters with other calibrated positions after initial orientation, for example previous platform or target position (e.g. for control, reversal learning, dual-strategy trials) | ✓ | ||
| Direct paths to close encounters with other calibrated positions after leaving the wall, for example previous platform or target position (e.g. for control, reversal learning, dual-strategy trials) | ✓ | ||
| Initial spatial intent towards target | ✓ | ||
| Initial spatial intent towards other calibrated positions, for example previous platform or target position (e.g. for control, reversal learning, dual-strategy trials) | ✓ | ||
| Target-focused search | ✓ | ||
| Search focused on other calibrated positions, for example previous platform or target position (e.g. for control, reversal learning, dual-strategy trials) | ✓ | ||
| Target scanning | ✓ | ||
| Scanning of other calibrated positions, for example previous platform or target position (e.g. for control, reversal learning, dual-strategy trials) | ✓ | ||
| Chaining behavior (with total qualifying angualr span in degrees) | ✓ | ||
| Circling behavior | ✓ | ||
| Broad spatial coverage | ✓ | ||
| Uniform spatial coverage | ✓ | ||
| Thigmotaxis/wall-hugging behavior (with total qualifying angualr span in degrees) | ✓ | ||
| Thigmotaxis with incursions (with total qualifying angualr span in degrees) | ✓ | ||
| Thigmotaxis with exploration (with total qualifying angualr span in degrees) | ✓ | ||
| Inactivity (with % time below activity threshold) | ✓ |
Not sure which level or setup you need? Talk to us about your research.