Traversal Time
Duration to cross the beam from start to goal box
ConductVision · Behavioral Analysis
Beam Walking Test
Evaluate motor coordination and balance by tracking traversal on a narrow beam.
RodentMotor CoordinationAuto Export
ConductVision / Beam Walking Test
Recording / Trial 3subject tracked
Traversal Time42%
Foot Slipsauto
Fallsauto
Key Parameters
Metrics automatically extracted by ConductVision.
Foot Slips
Number of paw placement errors during crossing
Falls
Count of complete falls from the beam
Traversal Speed
Mean velocity across the beam length
Pause Duration
Total time spent stationary on the beam
Beam Width Performance
Metrics compared across decreasing beam widths for sensitivity grading
What is the Beam Walking Test?
The Beam Walking Test assesses fine motor coordination and balance by requiring rodents to traverse an elevated narrow beam to reach a goal box. The test is highly sensitive to cerebellar dysfunction, corticospinal tract damage, and pharmacological interventions affecting motor control. Graded beam widths provide a difficulty series for detecting subtle coordination deficits.
ConductVision tracks the animal along the beam using side-view pose estimation, automatically counting foot slips via paw-position analysis relative to the beam edge. The software scores traversal time, pause events, and fall frequency across multiple beam widths, generating dose-response or lesion-severity curves.
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