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Chapters
- 00:05Title
- 01:19Open-field Tower Maze (OFTM) Construction
- 02:03Animal Preparation
- 02:31Pre-training Procedures
- 03:12Place-training & Response-training Procedures
- 04:51Start Location Switch Testing Procedures
- 05:47Data Analysis
- 06:24Representative Results: Place and Response Learning
- 07:46Conclusion
The Open-field Tower Maze (OFTM) is a maze created to study the behavioral and neural mechanisms of spatial learning (e.g., place- or response-learning) in rats. This maze is especially useful for experimenters who want to use a non-stressful maze paradigm to investigate spatial learning in their research.
