T-maze

The T-maze is a popular test for the investigation of spatial learning and memory. Often animals are taught to discriminate between the two arms based on visual, olfactory, tactile or even auditory cues during consecutive trials.

 

Noldus offers you the perfect tools for this test. First of all, EthoVision XT will track the behavior, activity, and movement of your animals in high detail. Add a T-maze and other equipment to create a complete solution. 

 


Examples of parameters
  • Percentage of trials in which the rewarded arm was entered first.
  • Time needed to move from the release zone to the baited arm.
  • Mean time needed to perform a full trial in the alternation test.
  • The course of velocity in which the rewarded arm is reached over time.
  • Mean turn angle as a measure of path sinuosity.
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Selected publications
  • Jacquot, J.; Pourie, G.; Buron, G.; Monnin, J.; Brand, G. (2006). Effects of toluene inhalation exposure on olfactory functioning: behavioral and histological assessment. Toxicology Letters, 165,57-65.
  • Morellini, F.; Lepsveridze, E.; Kahler, B.; Dityatev, A.; Schachner, M. (2007). Reduced reactivity to novelty, impaired social behavior, and enhanced basal synaptic excitatory activity in perforant path rojections to the dentate gyrus in young adult mice deficient in he neural cell adhesion molecule CHL1. Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, 34, 121-136.

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