Shuttle box automation, step-through/step-down latency measurement, and rotating arena place avoidance. ConductMaze controls doors, shockers, and sensors to run active and passive avoidance paradigms.
Two-way active avoidance (shuttle box) is a classical aversive learning paradigm in which the animal must cross from one compartment to another to avoid or escape a foot shock.
8 parametersThe passive avoidance (step-through) test measures inhibitory learning — the ability of an animal to suppress a natural behavior (entering a dark compartment) after that behavior has been paired with an aversive outcome.
6 parametersThe shuttle box avoidance paradigm measures an animal's ability to learn a predictive association between a warning signal (tone or light) and an impending aversive stimulus (foot shock), and to execute an instrumental escape or avoidance response by shuttling to the opposite compartment.
7 parametersThe active place avoidance task measures spatial navigation, cognitive coordination, and conflict resolution by requiring an animal on a continuously rotating circular arena to avoid a stationary shock zone defined by room-frame (allothetic) cues.
7 parametersInhibitory avoidance (IA), also termed step-down avoidance, is a single-trial aversive learning paradigm in which the animal learns to refrain from stepping down from an elevated platform onto a shock grid (Gold, 1986).
6 parametersThe zebrafish predator avoidance test quantifies innate defensive behaviors evoked by exposure to a predator stimulus, which can take the form of an animated predator image displayed on a screen adjacent to the tank, a live predator (such as Indian leaf fish, Nandus nandus) visible behind a transparent partition, or chemical alarm substance (Schreckstoff) extracted from conspecific skin.
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