Dig Bout Count
Number of discrete digging episodes
ConductVision · Behavioral Analysis
Digging & Burying
Automated substrate displacement and burying behavior quantification for anxiety and OCD research.
Coming SoonRodentAnxietyAuto Export
ConductVision / Digging & Burying
Recording / Trial 3subject tracked
Dig Bout Count14
Digging Duration27%
Substrate Displacedauto
Key Parameters
Metrics automatically extracted by ConductVision.
Total Digging Duration
Cumulative time spent digging
Substrate Displaced
Estimated volume of bedding moved
Burying Events
Number of object-burying episodes
Marble Burying Count
Marbles buried at session end
Dig Bout Rate
Digging episodes per unit time
What is Digging & Burying Detection?
Digging and burying are species-typical rodent behaviors with translational relevance to anxiety and OCD. The marble burying test measures compulsive-like behavior, while defensive burying quantifies active coping in response to aversive stimuli. Burrowing — digging food pellets from a tube — is a sensitive hippocampal function assay.
ConductVision is developing automated digging and burying detection using pose estimation and supervised classification. Contact our team to discuss early access or custom classifier training for your research.
Research Applications
Anxiety & OCD
- Marble burying test — compulsive-like behavior quantification
- Defensive burying — shock-probe burying latency and duration
- SSRI and anxiolytic drug screening via burying reduction
Hippocampal Function
- Burrowing assay — food pellet displacement as hippocampal readout
- Prion disease — early burrowing deficit detection
- Alzheimer's models — progressive burrowing decline
Species-Typical Behavior
- Nest material gathering and hoarding
- Environmental enrichment — substrate interaction scoring
- Strain differences in digging propensity
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