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Acquisition of a High-precision Skilled Forelimb Reaching Task in Rats

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Acquisition of a High-precision Skilled Forelimb Reaching Task in Rats

Acquisition of a High-precision Skilled Forelimb Reaching Task in Rats

DOI:

10.3791/53010-v

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08:59 min

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June 22, 2015

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Ajmal Zemmar*^1,2, Brigitte Kast*^1,2, Karin Lussi², Andreas R. Luft*³, Martin E. Schwab*^1,2

¹Brain Research Institute,University of Zurich, ²Department of Biology and Department of Health Sciences and Technology,ETH Zurich, ³Clinical Neurorehabilitation, Department of Neurology,University of Zurich & University Hospital Zurich

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00:05Title
01:25Animal Handling and Habituation
03:02Pre-training and Motor Skill Learning
04:51Determination of Paw Preference and Motor Skill Learning
07:13Learned Forelimb Reaching
08:17Conclusion

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A paradigm is presented to analyze the acquisition of a high-precision skilled forelimb reaching task in rats.

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Keywords: Skilled Forelimb Reaching Task Motor Learning Motor Function Behavioral Paradigm Motor Skill Task Pellet Retrieval Grasp Precision Motor Learning And Memory

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