Abstract
This protocol provides the information necessary to experimentally test rodents on the visible platform task, which assesses competence to perform a water escape task. Apparatus setup, step-by-step test procedures, and performance quantification procedures are specified, detailed, and discussed. Examples of peer- reviewed published research literature using these procedures are also provided.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 451-454 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Neuromethods |
Volume | 94 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- Animal model
- Control task
- Learning
- Maze
- Memory
- Mouse
- Performance
- Rat
- Rodent
- Swim ability
- Testing procedures
- Visible platform
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychiatry and Mental health
- General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
- General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- General Neuroscience