Avoidance Learning
The avoidance learning test is a three-day automated home-cage approach to measure avoidance learning in a high-throughput fashion. Mice learn to switch to their non-preferred shelter entrance, by pairing their preferred entrance with a mildly aversive stimulus (i.e., illumination of the shelter).
Our scientists have successfully used this task to characterize inbred strains and mutant mice with avoidance learning deficits (Maroteaux et al., 2012).
During avoidance learning in the PhenoTyper™, one of the two entrances of the shelter is paired with illumination of the shelter. A shift in entering through non-illuminated entrance is an indication successful avoidance learning.
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