Sometimes mice find a platform, but ignore it and continue to swim or immediately jump off. I thought, can this be seen as a manifestation of learning? That in this case to consider latent time (the first finding of the platform or when the animal sits on it)? Especially interested in a mice study.
Thank you for answers!
The latency is indeed the time they need to reach the platform.
In our lab, we train the mice very well to stay on the platform until they are "rescued" by the experimenter. In the early training phases, we gently guide the mouse back to the platform and let it stay there for at least 10 sec. The task they need to learn is to go to the platform and wait to be removed from the pool. Ideally they should never jump off, so the latency time is easy to measure.
I do not know, maybe I would ask something about the operation of memory-related neural architecture, and consequently spatial intelligence we could talk.
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