Learning and Memory

enrichment cage for rodents

Rodents can be trained to use spatial cues to navigate a maze that tests their ability to remember specific locations. ViewPoint provides a specific VideoTrack add-on in order to give you typical results from this test.

Open Field is usually to used to analyze exploratory, stress and anxiety behavior but also to measure locomotor activity levels into the arena.

Light and dark test is based on the spontanous exploratory rodents behaviour into the black/dark close compartiment and the white/light open compartiment.

Conditioned Place Preference (CPP) is used to measure rodent behavior according to different floor textures, wall drawing.

radial arm maze

Morris water maze evaluate spatial memory on rodents