Guides

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.

This guide describes how to set up ANY-maze to track in pre-recorded videos, and how to tackle some common issues you may encounter along the way.

This guide explains how to use ANY-maze to run tests in the Maze Engineers Fear Conditioning Chamber, with particular emphasis on how to issue commands to the Maze Engineers’ MazeController software to control the chamber’s speaker, light and shocker.