A behavioral test widely used on rodents to study spatial learning and memory, the Morris water maze (MWM), was recreated using software developed to create custom video game environments.

the maze must be set up several feet away from the experimenter’s seat. The tank must be filled with the escape platform submerged one inch below the water's surface. Non-fat dry milk or non ...

In early 1980s, Richard Morris, a researcher studying spatial navigation in rats, developed a new kind of test for spatial memory, which he published in 1984 under the title “Developments of a ...

The UCLA researchers studied rats in a virtual reality maze, and while observing the activities of large numbers of individual neurons in each animal’s hippocampus, the scientists discovered ...

The honeycomb maze represents a marked improvement over current spatial navigation tests, such as the Morris water maze 1,2,3, because it controls the choices of the animal at each point in the ...