Hi,
My question is about the head deflections / nose pokes of the mouse toward a given hole.
Many times, especially the first trials, mice visit a hole, and then explore around it, above the maze, even below the table, and finally make another head deflection or nose poke to the same hole, without moving its body location.
In this case, should I count 1 or 2 errors ? Is it the same methodology for the trials and the probe test ?
In addition: do you think that 100 s in average is a normal primary latency for control mice in their 1st trial (after familiarization) ? According to published papers, it seems very low...
Many thanks for your answers.
Hi Ali,
"Multiple consecutive head-dips into a single hole were counted as a
single error." (from O'Leary and Brown, 2011).
Thank you very much, I knew the paper but I have missed this information...
Have a good day.
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