Development and Validation of a Social Home Cage System for Rat Cognitive Testing: The Serotonin Case - Supporting Data (Chapters 2 and 3)

This Data Sharing Collection contains selected research data supporting Chapters 2 and 3 of the doctoral thesis "Development and Validation of a Social Home Cage System for Rat Cognitive Testing: The Serotonin Case" (DOI: 10.54195/9789465152608). The data originate from experimental studies conducted by the research team on the Social RatPad, an automated system for cognitive testing of rats in a social home-cage setting. Chapter 2 contains touchscreen task records and derived tables for pretraining, learning performance and trial-unique non-matching-to-location (TUNL) tasks. Chapter 3 contains source human annotations, system-generated RFID and One-Rat Turnstile logs, a Python validation script, matched-event results, figures and limited pilot touchscreen summaries. Chapter 3 is associated with the article "Requirements-driven automation of a social home-cage access-control system for rat cognitive testing" (Journal of Neuroscience Methods, DOI: 10.1016/j.jneumeth.2026.110880). Hardware reconstruction materials are deposited separately in Mendeley Data (DOI: 10.17632/p42fsstg93.2). Data supporting the related Chapter 4 ACS Chemical Neuroscience publication (DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.6c00557), including individual cognitive profiles, are deposited separately in another Data Sharing Collection (DOI: 10.34973/a2na-ja12) and are not reproduced here. Original complete research records are preserved in a closed-access Data Acquisition Collection (DOI: 10.34973/bm3h-tz55). This collection is intended for Restricted Access. Please consult the README for file-level documentation and the repository record for access conditions.