The morris maze protocol for rodents

Heather Bimonte-Nelson

doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-2159-1_19

The morris maze protocol for rodents

Heather Bimonte-Nelson

Psychology

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This protocol provides the information necessary to experimentally test rodents on the Morris maze task assessing spatial reference memory. Apparatus setup, step-by-step test procedures, and performance quantification procedures are specified, detailed, and discussed. Examples of peer-reviewed published research literature using these procedures are also provided.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Maze Book
Subtitle of host publication	Theories, Practice, and Protocols for Testing Rodent Cognition
Publisher	Springer New York
Pages	441-449
Number of pages	9
ISBN (Electronic)	9781493921591
ISBN (Print)	9781493921584
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2159-1_19
State	Published - Mar 10 2015

Keywords

Animal model
Learning
Maze
Memory
Memory retention
Mouse
Rat
Reference memory
Rodent
Spatial memory
Testing procedures

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General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

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