Translational Difficulties in Querying Rats on “Orientation”

Figure 4

Sample tracks to the “evening” target position from the “South” beginning point (B) of LH rats on day 3. (a) sequentially visiting the three potential target zones (escape latency: about 8  s), (b) swimming through one potential target place before reaching the platform (escape latency: about 6  s), (c) swimming directly to target (escape latency: about 3  s). The dotted circle demonstrates the target zone of the standard Morris experiment, the rats were previously trained for.

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