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EEG and ECoG
From 2021 to 2025, 265 animal research papers mentioned EEG or ECoG and at least one behavioral test.
That is 1.7 times the 160 papers of 2011 to 2015. Between the same two periods, all the animal research papers that mention any of the 90 tests we count grew more slowly, to 1.2 times as many.
The tests mentioned with EEG or ECoG
Each bar is one test, with how many of the 265 papers from 2021 to 2025 mention it, and what share that is. A paper that mentions two tests counts under both.
The 15 tests these papers mention most
All 50 tests these papers mention
| Test | Papers | Share of the 265 papers |
|---|---|---|
| Open field | 51 | 19% |
| Morris water maze | 47 | 18% |
| Novel object recognition | 39 | 15% |
| Elevated plus maze | 34 | 13% |
| Y-maze | 23 | 9% |
| Forced swim test | 20 | 8% |
| Wheel running | 18 | 7% |
| Fear conditioning | 18 | 7% |
| Rotarod | 17 | 6% |
| Sucrose preference test | 13 | 5% |
| Light-dark box | 11 | 4% |
| Operant conditioning | 10 | 4% |
| Barnes maze | 9 | 3% |
| Tail suspension test | 9 | 3% |
| Object location test | 7 | 3% |
| Touchscreen operant tasks | 7 | 3% |
| Treadmill running | 6 | 2% |
| Passive avoidance | 6 | 2% |
| Conditioned place preference | 6 | 2% |
| Beam walking | 6 | 2% |
| Nest building | 6 | 2% |
| Grip strength | 6 | 2% |
| Prepulse inhibition and acoustic startle | 5 | 2% |
| Self-administration | 5 | 2% |
| Social interaction test | 5 | 2% |
| Formalin test | 5 | 2% |
| Von Frey test | 5 | 2% |
| Active avoidance (shuttle box) | 3 | 1% |
| T-maze | 3 | 1% |
| Hargreaves plantar test | 3 | 1% |
| Radial arm maze | 3 | 1% |
| Self-grooming | 3 | 1% |
| Tail flick | 2 | 1% |
| Looming stimulus | 2 | 1% |
| Catalepsy bar test | 2 | 1% |
| Hot plate | 2 | 1% |
| Elevated zero maze | 2 | 1% |
| Novelty-suppressed feeding | 2 | 1% |
| Five-choice serial reaction time task | 2 | 1% |
| Olfactory tests | 2 | 1% |
| Marble burying | 1 | under 1% |
| Predator odor exposure | 1 | under 1% |
| Skilled reaching | 1 | under 1% |
| Real-time place preference | 1 | under 1% |
| Active place avoidance | 1 | under 1% |
| Cylinder test | 1 | under 1% |
| Hole-board | 1 | under 1% |
| Three-chamber sociability test | 1 | under 1% |
| Gait analysis | 1 | under 1% |
| Wire hang and inverted grid | 1 | under 1% |
Tests named in 30 or more of these papers link to a page on that test with EEG or ECoG. To count the papers that mention two or more tests together, use the test battery tool.
Papers by year
Animal research papers that mention EEG or ECoG and a behavioral test, by year, 2001 to 2026
The 2026 bar counts papers added to PubMed by November 8, 2026.
- Papers in a full year
- 2026 so far
Show the counts for each year
| Year | Papers |
|---|---|
| 2001 | 16 |
| 2002 | 15 |
| 2003 | 19 |
| 2004 | 9 |
| 2005 | 22 |
| 2006 | 12 |
| 2007 | 16 |
| 2008 | 20 |
| 2009 | 10 |
| 2010 | 22 |
| 2011 | 27 |
| 2012 | 26 |
| 2013 | 42 |
| 2014 | 39 |
| 2015 | 26 |
| 2016 | 40 |
| 2017 | 35 |
| 2018 | 46 |
| 2019 | 46 |
| 2020 | 51 |
| 2021 | 51 |
| 2022 | 50 |
| 2023 | 52 |
| 2024 | 63 |
| 2025 | 49 |
| 2026 (part year) | 66 |
Disease models in papers that mention EEG or ECoG
Each bar is one disease model, with how many of the 265 papers from 2021 to 2025 are tagged with it, and what share that is. The model comes from the paper's MeSH terms, the subject headings the National Library of Medicine adds when it indexes a paper. A paper without MeSH terms gets its model from PubTator 3, NCBI's text-mining service, if PubTator 3 finds the disease in the title or abstract. A paper can count under more than one model.
Papers from 2021 to 2025 by disease model
Which species the papers used
Each bar is a share of the 265 papers from 2021 to 2025. A paper can use more than one species, so the shares can add to more than 100%.
Species
“Other animals” counts papers that use none of the species this chart names.
NIH funding
49 of the 265 papers (18%) had NIH funding. NINDS, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, funded the most, 30 of them. A paper counts as NIH-funded when its PubMed record lists an NIH grant, or when NIH RePORTER links it to an NIH project.
NIH-funded papers by institute
Each share is of the NIH-funded papers. A paper with grants from two institutes counts under both.
The most cited papers from 2021 to 2025
These papers from 2021 to 2025 mention EEG or ECoG and a behavioral test and have the most citations, as counted by NIH's iCite on November 5, 2026.
Transl Psychiatry, 2023. 125 citations.
J Neuroinflammation, 2022. 69 citations.
Free Radic Biol Med, 2022. 57 citations.
Size-dependent seizurogenic effect of polystyrene microplastics in zebrafish embryos.
J Hazard Mater, 2022. 56 citations.
Microglia proliferation plays distinct roles in acquired epilepsy depending on disease stages.
Epilepsia, 2021. 52 citations.
How we counted
A paper counts here when it is animal research and its title or abstract mentions EEG or ECoG and at least one of the 90 behavioral tests. A count is a number of papers, not of experiments, labs or animals. A paper that mentions EEG or ECoG only in its methods is missed, so the count runs low.
A paper is animal research when its MeSH terms name an animal species. If they name none, NCBI's text-mining service PubTator 3 has to find one in the title or abstract. Papers on animals other than mice, rats, zebrafish, flies and primates count only when they also mention a test. Many of them study people or use the same words for something else.
The search terms for EEG or ECoG are in the download Animal models and brain techniques. The counts in the chart of tests are in Tests mentioned with each model or technique. The full method, with each source and its terms of use, is on our main page, Behavioral tests in published research.
More brain techniques
Each brain technique with 100 or more papers from 2021 to 2025 that mention a test has a page. These are the others, each with that count.
- Intracerebroventricular (ICV) injection 706 papers
- AAV vectors 546 papers
- Chemogenetics (DREADDs) 505 papers
- Optogenetics 443 papers
- In vivo electrophysiology 335 papers
- Intranasal delivery 299 papers
- Intrathecal injection 257 papers
- Fiber photometry 177 papers
- Transcranial stimulation 152 papers
- Microdialysis 133 papers
How to cite
APA
ConductScience. (2026, November 13). Behavioral tests with EEG or ECoG [Data set]. https://conductscience.com/resources/data/brain-techniques/eeg
BibTeX
@misc{conductscience_eeg_2026,
author = {{ConductScience}},
title = {Behavioral tests with EEG or ECoG},
year = {2026},
month = nov,
url = {https://conductscience.com/resources/data/brain-techniques/eeg},
note = {Data set, released November 13, 2026},
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