Detour Behavior of Mice Trained with Transparent, Semitransparent and Opaque Barriers.

ABSTRACT: Detour tasks are commonly used to study problem solving skills and inhibitory control in canids and primates. However, there is no comparable detour test designed for rodents despite its significance for studying the development of executive skills. Furthermore, mice offer research opportunities that are not currently possible to achieve when primates are used. Therefore, the aim of the study was to translate the classic detour task to mice and to compare obtained data with key findings obtained previously in other mammals. The experiment was performed with V-shaped barriers and was based on the water escape paradigm. The study showed that an apparently simple task requiring mice to move around a small barrier constituted in fact a challenge that was strongly affected by the visibility of

SUBMITTER: Juszczak GR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5010287 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature