Instrumented device for characterising the capacity of a mouse to orientate itself
AssigneesUniversite De Montpellier, Inserm (Institut Natonal De La Sante Et De La Recherche Medicale), Ecole Pratique Des Hautes Etudes
InventorTangui MAURICE
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Abstract
A device is provided for studying the ability of at least one mouse to find its bearings in a maze, the device including a plurality of houses distributed around a central agora and in which at least one stimulator allows the at least one mouse to carry out certain activities and/or satisfy certain primary needs. Each house further includes at least one sensor for measuring the activity of the mouse in the house, and more particularly its use of the at least one stimulator. Finally, a sensor makes it possible to detect and measure the movements of each mouse in the device. Quantitative parameters originating from these measurements thus make it possible to highlight the quality of the geographical memory of the at least one mouse.
Claims13
A device for studying the topographical memory of at least one mouse, said device comprising:
- a central space, called the agora, open on at least one side;
- a plurality of closed spaces, called houses, located at the periphery of the agora, said houses being open on one side and connected to at least one traffic space, called a street, allowing the at least one mouse to reach the agora;
- a plurality of means of stimulation of the at least one mouse located in the plurality of houses;
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- said at least one traffic space forms a maze that is arranged in such a way that the distances between the agora and each house are identical, each house being accessible from the agora via at least two direct paths of the same length, all of the direct paths connecting each house to the agora being of equal length.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.