Animal memory search behavioral experiment device and method

Abstract

The invention discloses an animal memory search behavioral experiment device and method. The device comprises a shell, a control shading plate, an execution shading plate, detecting components, a plurality of control turning plates, a plurality of support turning plates and a control component and is characterized in that the an experiment cavity and a food cavity are arranged in the shell in a partitioned manner, a control cavity and an execution cavity are arranged in the experiment cavity in a partitioned manner, the bottom wall of the control cavity is provided with a plurality of controlfood taking ports, the bottom wall of the execution cavity is provided with a plurality of food taking ports, the shell is provided with two hand-stretching openings which respectively correspond to the control cavity and the execution cavity, the execution shading plate is slidably arranged on the shell, each control turning plate corresponds to one control food taking port, and each support turning plate corresponds to one execution food taking port. The behavioral experiment device can well quantify the animal memory search behavioral ability so as to accurately analyze the function of thecorresponding brain-area temporal lobe.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of animal behavior research, in particular to an animal search memory behavior experiment device and an experiment method. Background technique [0002] With the development of science and technology, animals have great similarities with humans in neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, immunology and genetics, and are widely used in medical biology (including behavior) testing and research. Behavioral training is the study of clinical characteristics of animals. Animals complete target tasks in training to achieve the purpose of evaluating certain indicators, so as to reveal the nature and laws of life activities, health and diseases. However, because it is a large, intelligent, gregarious, long-lived, non-domesticated and aggressive animal, it is difficult and complicated to configure a reasonable behavioral device. Previous studies on visuospatial cognitive memory focused on testing working memory. [0003] At p...

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[0003] At present, there is no ethological device that can accurately quantify animal search memory in the prior art. Most of the existing devices can only perform qualitative analysis. Such analysis results are not accurate and cannot reflect the animal's hearing and behavior well. Therefore, it is not possible to analyze the function of the temporal lobe in the corresponding brain area of ​​animals very well.

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