Place avoidance tasks as tools in the behavioral neuroscience of learning and memory
| Autor: | Stepan Kubik, M Wesierska, C Dockery, Tomas Petrasek, Karel Vales, Ales Stuchlik, Iva Prokopova, Kristina Holubova, Hana Hatalova |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Cognitive science
Behavior Animal Physiology Computer science Neurosciences Spatial Behavior Cognition General Medicine Behavioral neuroscience Spatial memory Task (project management) Variety (cybernetics) Species Specificity Memory Space Perception Models Animal Spatial learning Avoidance Learning Animals Declarative memory Behavioral Research |
| Zdroj: | ResearcherID Tomas Petrasek Scopus-Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 1802-9973 |
| Popis: | Spatial navigation comprises a widely-studied complex of animal behaviors. Its study offers many methodological advantages over other approaches, enabling assessment of a variety of experimental questions and the possibility to compare the results across different species. Spatial navigation in laboratory animals is often considered a model of higher human cognitive functions including declarative memory. Almost fifteen years ago, a novel dry-arena task for rodents was designed in our laboratory, originally named the place avoidance task, and later a modification of this approach was established and called active place avoidance task. It employs a continuously rotating arena, upon which animals are trained to avoid a stable sector defined according to room-frame coordinates. This review describes the development of the place avoidance tasks, evaluates the cognitive processes associated with performance and explores the application of place avoidance in the testing of spatial learning after neuropharmacological, lesion and other experimental manipulations. |
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