Variants of the Morris water maze task to comparatively assess human and rodent place navigation

• Published in: Neurobiology of learning and memory Vol. 139; pp. 117 - 127
• Main Authors: Schoenfeld, Robby, Schiffelholz, Thomas, Beyer, Christian, Leplow, Bernd, Foreman, Nigel
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.03.2017
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Animals; Cues; Humans; Male; Maze Learning - physiology; Mice; Motivation - physiology; Spatial Navigation - physiology; Time Factors; Young Adult; Human; Reference memory task; Morris water maze; Mouse; Virtual reality

Performance in the Morris water maze has been widely used in routine behavioural studies of rodents. Since the advent of computer-based virtual environments, adaptations of the water maze have become available for human research. Despite decades of comparative neuroscience, formal comparisons of hum...