Ideal for testing spatial learning and memory, the Barnes Maze motivates animals to hide from the bright, open platform by finding the small, dark “escape box.” Animals learn the escape box’s location without the stress of swimming or food deprivation and false escape boxes remove the possibility of inadvertent cues. San Diego Instruments (SDI) designed its maze to be easy to use, clean and transport. With a variety of color options, the maze adjusts to fit a wide range of experiments and is compatiable with ANY-Maze Video Tracking. The maze comes in both rat and mouse models and includes 20 explorations holes, 20 false escape boxes and one escape box.
Everything you need to test spatial learning and memory using the Barnes maze. Includes one Barnes maze with escape box, BehaviorCloud’s video recording equipment, and a one-year subscription to BehaviorCloud video tracking software. Automatically analyzes videos to track a rodent’s path through the maze and generate variables like velocity, distance traveled, ambulatory time, and zone entries. Track the time it takes for a subject to reach the escape hole and visits to incorrect holes. BehaviorCloud is the premier system for animal behavior research, including built-in collaboration tools, cloud-backed data storage, and convenient access to your experiments from anywhere by logging in to your account.