A Barnes maze for juvenile rats delineates the emergence of spatial navigation ability
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Unbiased classification of spatial strategies in the Barnes maze
MOTIVATION Spatial learning is one of the most widely studied cognitive domains in neuroscience. The Morris water maze and the Barnes maze are the most commonly used techniques to assess spatial learning and memory in rodents. Despite the fact that these tasks are well-validated paradigms for testing spatial learning abilities, manual categorization of performance into behavioral strategies is ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Learning & Memory
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1549-5485
DOI: 10.1101/lm.046300.117