Behavioural Analysis
Researchers use a range of techniques to assess animal behaviour and cognition. These include:
Cognitive testing
- Morris water maze
- Water plus maze
- Radial arm maze
- Temporal order memory task
- Episodic-like memory tasks
- Object displacement and object recognition tasks
- Operant conditioning tasks (e.g. delay tasks, alternation tasks, response tasks)
- Water working memory T maze
Stress and anxiety tests
- Forced swimming test
- Novelty-suppressed feeding
- Saccharin preference testing
- Elevated plus maze
- Open field testing
- Stress-induced hyperthermia
Additional methodologies
- Rotarod
- Automated Home Cage Monitoring for full behavioural phenotyping
- Bioradiotelemetry (body temperature, heart rate and locomotor activity)