Automate the experiment.
Not just the observation.
ConductMaze gives you direct hardware control over operant chambers, shuttle boxes, treadmills, and sensory testing rigs. Build protocols visually, run multi-chamber experiments in parallel, and export publication-ready data — all from one platform.
A behavioral testing platform, on a single timeline
Hardware-level control, sub-millisecond event latency, and real-time data export — everything you need to run reproducible behavioral experiments.
166 built-in assays
Across 15 behavioral domains, from operant conditioning to depression models.
<1 ms event latency
Hardware-level event triggering with sub-millisecond precision timing.
16 parallel chambers
Run parallel experiments with independent protocol control per chamber.
Real-time data export
Live streaming to CSV, Excel, and EthoVision with synchronized event markers.
166 protocols across 15 behavioral domains
Operant Conditioning
17Automated reinforcement schedules, lever/nose-poke tracking, pellet dispensing, and self-administration paradigms.
Fear Conditioning
7Precise shock delivery with tone/light CS pairing, automated freezing triggers, and multi-context chamber reconfiguration.
Avoidance
6Shuttle box automation, step-through/step-down latency measurement, and rotating arena place avoidance.
Sensory & Pain
17Acoustic startle chambers, pre-pulse inhibition, thermal nociception, mechanical pain thresholds, and orofacial pain assessment.
Motor Assessment
19Rotarod acceleration profiles, treadmill endurance testing, grip strength measurement, and skilled reaching analysis.
Social Behavior
14Three-chamber sociability automation, social discrimination protocols, and social self-administration paradigms.
Cognitive & Attention
11Five-choice serial reaction time task, intra/extra-dimensional set-shifting, and touchscreen visual discrimination.
Spatial Memory
23T-maze and Y-maze alternation, radial arm maze arm tracking, Morris water maze navigation, and Barnes maze spatial search.
Anxiety
11Elevated plus maze, zero maze, open field, light/dark box, marble burying, and approach-avoidance conflict paradigms.
Metabolism
7Indirect calorimetry integration for VO2/VCO2/RER measurement during rest and exercise.
Home Cage
9Continuous running wheel monitoring, lickometer microstructure analysis, nest building, and burrowing assessment.
Depression & Mood
7Forced swim test, tail suspension, sucrose preference, and novelty-suppressed feeding paradigms.
Recognition Memory
4Novel object recognition, temporal order memory, object-place associations, and contextual recognition paradigms.
Reward & Motivation
10Conditioned place preference, delay and effort discounting, probabilistic learning, and sign-tracking paradigms.
Integrations
4Connect ConductMaze to video tracking, electrophysiology, optogenetics, and metabolic systems.
TTL Interfaces
17Digital TTL output interfaces for synchronizing behavioral events with electrophysiology, calcium imaging, optogenetics, and fiber photometry recording systems.
Cross-species protocol library
Species-specific configurations handle different force requirements, apparatus dimensions, and sensory modalities.
Rodent (Mouse & Rat)
Over 140 protocols across operant, fear, motor, cognitive, social, depression, recognition, and reward domains. Species-specific configurations for mice and rats.
Zebrafish
Swim tunnel, T-maze, Y-maze, 5-choice, conditioned place preference, and tap startle protocols. Infrared tracking and flow-control hardware for aquatic behavioral automation.
Drosophila
Heat-map preference assays, visual and olfactory choice paradigms, and thermogenetic conditioning. Precision temperature arenas for rapid screening of large fly cohorts.
Pig
Porcine operant conditioning with large-format operant panels, heavy-duty feeders, and reinforced chambers for large-animal cognitive studies.
How ConductMaze compares
| Feature | ConductMaze | MED-PC | ABET II |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modern GUI | Yes | No | Yes |
| Visual protocol builder | Yes | No | No |
| Real-time data display | Yes | No | Yes |
| Multi-chamber dashboard | Yes | No | Yes |
| Built-in assays | 50+ | ~20 | ~30 |
| Custom protocol scripting | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-species support | Yes | No | No |
| Touchscreen paradigms | Yes | No | Yes |
| Direct hardware control | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| TTL synchronization | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| EthoVision integration | Yes | No | No |
| Optogenetics adapter | Yes | No | No |
| CSV / Excel export | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Real-time data streaming | Yes | No | No |
| Database storage | Yes | No | Yes |
| Automated analysis | Yes | No | No |
| Base license included with hardware | Yes | No | No |
| Per-chamber licensing required | No | Yes | Yes |
| Free updates | Yes | No | No |
Works with your existing lab infrastructure
EthoVision (Noldus)
Bidirectional TCP/IP with Noldus EthoVision XT 17+. Closed-loop control on tracked zones, with unified behavioral and video timestamps.
Electrophysiology Sync
TTL pulses on every behavioral event via dedicated I/O for microsecond-precision alignment with Neuralynx, Blackrock, and Open Ephys.
Optogenetics (PulsePal)
Sanworks PulsePal integration delivers precisely timed optogenetic stimulation triggered by behavioral events.
Metabolic Chamber + Treadmill
Synchronize treadmill speed with VO2/VCO2 sampling. Graded exercise tests with automated stage progression and real-time RER.
See ConductMaze in Action
Schedule a demo with our team to explore protocols, configure hardware, and review data workflows.
