Guides

ANY-maze records an animal’s movement as XY coordinates for each frame, generating data like Distance traveled and Average speed. For external analysis, raw coordinates and test events can be exported in a “Test data report.” This guide explains how to customize, export, and interpret the report.

This guide explains how to set up a standard Three-Chamber Sociability and Social Novelty experiment in ANY-maze, including how to draw the apparatus map to include the cups, how to use moveable zones to counterbalance the cups, how to use Procedures to automatically assign cup positions, and how to view the results of the tests.

Part 2 of this guide describes how to automatically assign the novel object’s shape and position between animals, how to label the objects for testing, and how to calculate the discrimination index.

Part one of this two-part guide explains how to set up a standard Novel Object Recognition experiment in ANY-maze, including how to draw the apparatus map to include the objects, how to use moveable zones to counterbalance the objects, and how to view the results of the tests.

ANY-maze Keys can be used to manually score behaviours, such as grooming or sniffing, which the software can’t detect automatically. Doing this for many keys simultaneously can be difficult, so ANY-maze allows you to score the same test repeatedly, perhaps recording just two behaviours on each iteration. This guide explains how to do this.

Spontaneous alternations are a commonly used measure in the Y-maze. This guide explains how to set up ANY-maze to detect them and how to calculate the Percentage spontaneous alternations, which is the result that is usually reported.