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- noun A shallow
pool ofwater , containing an escape platform and a variety of visual clues, used to studylearning inmice andrats
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Combining this observation with normal performance in the visual watermaze suggests a complex interaction between the difficulty of the task and a substantial motivational component that underlie their lack of spatial acquisition, with the possibility that muscular weakness also contributes to apathy.
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Mice were used for multiple tests in this order: open field, watermaze, fear conditioning or open field, elevated plus maze, sucrose consumption, watermaze with a minimum of two weeks rest before commencing a new test.
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Mbnl1 −/− mice were fatigued, this should be more evident in the visible watermaze.
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Therefore, we carefully chose tasks that require varying degrees of muscular strength (i.e. low demands in fear conditioning, higher demands in the water maze) and performed control tasks when possible (i.e. visible watermaze to control for the hidden water maze) in order to dissociate muscular/physical impairments from higher level brain functional deficits.
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Mbnl1 −/− mice show unmotivated behavior in the water maze, failing to switch from passive strategies to a spatially selective search as exhibited by increased floating in the watermaze task
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Mbnl1 −/− mice in the watermaze suggested that these mutants may have motivational deficits.
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Molden S, Donnett JG, Moser MB, Moser EI (2001) Accumulation of hippocampal place fields at the goal location in an annular watermaze task.
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Mbnl1 −/− mice perform normally in the visible watermaze (
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Figure 4E) which involved three sequential trials compared to two sequential trials in the hidden platform task, and was performed after the hidden watermaze.
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