Enemy avoidance task: A novel behavioral paradigm for assessing spatial avoidance of a moving subject
2009
Abstract
Common behavioral paradigms used in neurobiological research of memory and spatial navigation of rodents (e.g. the Morris water maze, radial maze and Barnes maze) do not allow to assess certain important aspects of spatial cognition, such as prediction of future position of a moving target or assessment of speed, direction and distance of moving target. As a solution to this problem, we present a novel behavioral test called Enemy avoidance task.