Equipment: COGNITION
About
The cognition category includes behavioral tests that allow us to assess the learning abilities of animals.
Devices available on the platform:
- Morris's Swimming PoolThe Morris water pool test is a classic test used to assess spatial learning and memory abilities. In this test, animals must learn the location of a platform placed in a pool using external visual cues.
- Number of devices: 1
- Barnes MazeThe Barnes maze (photo) is the equivalent of the Morris water maze in a dry environment. It allows you to answer the same type of questions.
- Number of devices: 1
- Operative conditioningOperant conditioning is a type of associative learning in which animals receive a reward after performing a specific action or series of actions (typically pressing a lever). Operant conditioning allows us to explore both the mechanisms of adaptive learning and those underlying addictions.
- Number of devices: 7
