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Neuroscience
The Morris Water Maze
Description
The Morris water maze is one of the most widely used behavioral tests for studying spatial learning and memory. In the initial phases of this task, rodents must swim to a platform to escape from a pool of water. The platform is then hidden under the water’s surface, so that the animal is required to remember it’s location in...
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Transcript
The Morris water maze is a valuable tool to study learning and memory in rodents. These critters are good swimmers, but they generally prefer to be on land. The water maze takes advantage of this preference to train animals to use a small platform as an escape from a pool of water. After training, the platform is hidden benea...
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