Environment types
19 maze types listed.
Mazes |
Dimensions |
Description |
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square_cage | 2D | It’s like a home cage, but with fresh bedding and pellets to eat | |
Head-fixed disc | 1D Restricted | Animal is head-fixed and positioned on a horizontal freely moving disc. The animal can spin the disk. | |
Forced swim test | 3D | The forced swim test, also known as the behavioral despair test, is used to test for depression-like behavior in both mice and rats. | |
Elevated zero maze | 2D Restricted | The elevated zero maze is very similar to the elevated plus maze, but lacks a center square. Gives an indication of anxiety versus exploration. | |
Y-maze | 2D Restricted | The Y-maze is, similar to the T-maze, a test to investigate spatial learning and memory. Specifically designed for testing rats or mice. | |
T-maze | 2D Restricted | The T-maze task is an investigation of spatial learning and memory. Subsequently, reversal learning or retention can be investigated. | |
Barnes maze | 2D | The Barnes maze is a paradigm to study spatial learning and memory. It consists of a circular table with holes around the circumference. | |
Morris water maze | 2D | The Morris water maze task is a popular and well-validated test for spatial learning: most-used behavioral test in neuroscience research | |
Elevated plus maze | 2D Restricted | The elevated plus maze is a well-characterized behavioral paradigm, one of the most used tests for anxiety research | |
Open field environment | 2D | An open field environment without walls typically raised above the floor. | |
Linear track | 1D Restricted | A simple linear track which only allows the animal to run back and forth along a linear trajectory. | |
Figure eight maze | 2D Restricted | A figure-8 maze where the animal can run along a outer square shared track and further along a centerline as well, which connects the outer track. | |
Circular track | 2D Restricted | A circular maze that only allows the animal to run in a circular fashion. | |
Radial arm maze | 2D Restricted | A simple homemade eight-arm radial arm maze with sidewalls to prevent interarm traverses The radial arm maze was designed by Olton and Samuelson in 1976 to measure spatial learning and memory in rats.[1] The original apparatus consists of eight equidistantly spaced arms, each about 4 feet long, and all radiating from a small circular central platform (later versions have used as few as three[2] and as many as 48 arms[3]). At the end of each arm there is a food site, the contents of which are not visible from the central platform. |
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Theta maze | 2D Restricted | A circular maze with a central arm going across the center of the circle. | |
Sleepbox | 2D | A sleepbox is a box, with sound and visual isolation from the outside surroundings. It isolates the animal from outside sound- and visual distractions. The animal will typically be located in its homecage inside the sleep box. | |
Cheeseboard maze | 2D | A circular disk maze with drilled holes in the maze for hidden rewards | |
Homecage | 2D | The homecage belonging to the animal. | |
Running wheel | 0D | A running wheel. The wheel can have another simple environment connecting to the wheel. |