Universitatsklinikum Wurzburg 1 article published in JoVE Behavior A Within-Subject Experimental Design using an Object Location Task in Rats Gülberk Bayraktar*1,2, Kristoffer Højgaard*1,3, Luc Nijssen1,4, Tomonori Takeuchi1,5 1Danish Research Institute of Translational Neuroscience (DANDRITE), Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, 2Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Institut für Klinische Neurobiologie, 3Translational Neuropsychiatry Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, 4Faculty of Science, Radboud University, 5Center for Proteins in Memory - PROMEMO, Danish National Research Foundation, Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University This protocol provides detailed steps for an object location task with four repetitions using the same cohort of rats. Weak and strong encoding can produce short- and long-term memories. The flexibility of the protocol with repetition can be beneficial for studies involving surgical operations by saving time and labor.
