Methods library · Neurons and physiology
Animal behavioural assays and conditioning
Also called von Frey, place preference, water maze, lick test
Measuring sensation, pain, preference, learning and memory in animals with standard tests and conditioning paradigms, and their controls.
The film for this method is in production. Until then, the lessons below explain it where they use it.
Where it is taught
21 lessons use this method.
Sensory Systems
- Hairy Skin, Stroking and Affective Touch
- Where Touch Is First Processed: Dorsal Horn and Dorsal Column Nuclei
- Touch Over-reactivity in Autism Models
- Hot, Warm, Cool and Cold
- Nociceptors and the Sodium Channels of Pain
- Spinal Circuits That Gate Pain
- Itch: A Sense of Its Own
- When Pain Persists
- Sensing the Gut: Enteroendocrine Cells and Nutrient Signals
- Computing Motion in the Retina
- Melanopsin Cells: Seeing Without Images
- Taste from Tongue to Cortex
- Combining Senses and Predicting Them