Water maze (neuroscience)
A water maze is a device used to test an animal's memory in which the alleys are filled with water, providing a motivation to escape.[1]
Many different mazes exist, such as
spatial learning abilities.[4] The Morris water navigation task is often called a "water maze task", but this is erroneous as it is not, properly speaking, a maze.[1] The development of these mazes has aided research into, for example, hippocampal synaptic plasticity, NMDA receptor function, and looking into neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease
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References
- ^ ISBN 978-0-86377-807-0.
- ^ S2CID 29310788.
- PMID 27545092.
- ^ S2CID 21857767.
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