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  Radial arm maze - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At the end of each arm there was a food site, the contents of which were not visible from the central platform.
Cole and Chappell-Stephenson (2003) using a radial maze with food locations ranging from 8 to 48 estimated the limit of spatial memory in rats to be between 24 and 32 locations.
Roberts, W.A. Spatial memory in the rat on a hierarchical maze.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Radial_arm_maze   (362 words)

  
 Small Animal Behavior Core- Services; radialarmmaze   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Description: In the Radial Arm Maze task, a rodent is placed in the center of a maze.
To successfully complete the task, the rodent must enter each arm and retrieve the food pellets and use spatial cues in the room to remember which arms of the maze it has previously explored to avoid re-entering the same arms.
Both 8- and 12- arm versions of the task are used.
www.mcg.edu /core/Labs/sabc/Radialarmmaze.htm   (108 words)

  
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Food depriving them to 85% of their original body weight and baiting the end of each arm with a food reward is a safe and effective way to encourage the rat to transverse in its environment.
The maze environment is crucial for unit recording.
Training can be done on any radial arm maze, if the others are set up, but it is usually done on the maze used for recording sessions.
www.utdallas.edu /~tres/protocols/behavior.maze.tim.doc   (763 words)

  
 Noldus - Tips & Tricks - EthoVision - Radial Arm Maze
We want the trial to end as soon as the animal has entered certain target arms of a radial arm maze.
In a radial arm maze, there are usually 6-16 arms.
For example, the patches in the four arms where food has been placed.
www.noldus.com /site/doc200402122   (223 words)

  
 Radial Arm Maze   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Some versions of the task can be used to examine concurrently both working and reference memory.
Like the water maze, this task is sensitive to hippocampal function.
The task is designed to mimic natural foraging behaviors.
btc.bol.ucla.edu /id26.htm   (47 words)

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