Rat cNOR-OL Experiment and Holding Chamber allows choice of Floor type and Gate type. Additional options of scoring camera and food reward dispenser are also available.
A budget-friendly manual chamber provides an entry level for both cNOR/OL. No PC required, just plug the USB scoring chamber into your laptop and the scoring app will be triggered by the opening of the gate.
FEATURES
High statistical power
Reduced animal usage
Manual Chamber and Gate
Multiple chambers with auto-gate
Auto-habituation
Multiple trials per session
Change testing context using optional tactile floors
Video scoring app
Exploration latency
New windows into neural mechanisms
SCIENCE
Key Publications
Ennaceur & Delacour 1988 (Object preference)
Ennaceur & Meliani 1992 (Memory for location)
Ennaceur & Aggleton 1997 (Prh lesions in spatial and NOR)
Ameen-Ali et al 2015 (improved reliability & interpretation)
Seel, Eacott, Langston & Easton 2017 (rats)
Continual Trials 2018-2019 Papers
Chan, M, Austen, J. M., Eacott, M. J., Easton, A. & Sanderson, D. J. (2019). The NMDA receptor antagonist MK-801 fails to impair long-term recognition memory in mice when the state-dependency of memory is controlled. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 161: 57-62. - Abstract
Cholinergic input to the hippocampus is not required for a model of episodic memory in the rat, even with multiple consecutive events. Behavioural Brain Research, Volume 354, Pages 48-54 15 November 2018, S. V. Seel, M. J. Eacott, R. F. Langston, A. Easton Behavioural Brain Research 354: 48-54. - Abstract
Continual Trials Spontaneous Recognition Tasks in Mice: Reducing Animal Numbers and Improving Our Understanding of the Mechanisms Underlying Memory. Frontiers In Behavioural Neuroscience 13 September 2018, Chan, Eacott, Sanderson, Wang, Sun & Easton Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 12: 214. - Abstract
Related papers on Recognition and Episodic Memory
Pereda, D., Al-Osta, I., Okorocha, A.E., Easton, A. & Hartell, N.A. (2019). Changes in presynaptic calcium signalling accompany age-related deficits in hippocampal LTP and cognitive impairment. Aging Cell 18(5): e13008. - Abstract
Ameen-Ali, K.E., Easton, A. & Eacott, M.J. (2015). Moving beyond standard procedures to assess spontaneous recognition memory. Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 53: 37-51. - Abstract
Robertson, B-A., Eacott, M.J. & Easton, A. (2015). Putting Memory in Context: Dissociating memories by distinguishing the nature of context. Behavioural Brain Research 285: 99-104. - Abstract
Davis, KE, Easton, A., Eacott, MJ & Gigg, J (2013). Episodic-Like Memory for What-Where-Which Occasion is Selectively Impaired in the 3xTgAD Mouse Model of Alzheimer's Disease. Journal of Alzheimer's Disease 33(3): 681-698. - Abstract
Davis, K.E., Eacott, M.J., Easton, A & Gigg, J. (2013). Episodic-like memory is sensitive to both Alzheimer's-like pathological accumulation and normal ageing processes in mice. Behavioural Brain Research 254: 73-82. - Abstract
Ameen-Ali,K.E., Eacott,M.J. & Easton,A. (2012). A new behavioural apparatus to reduce animal numbers in multiple types of spontaneous object recognition paradigms in rats. Journal of neuroscience methods 211(1): 66-76. - Abstract
Easton, A & Eacott, MJ (2012). Cholinergic mechanisms of episodic memory: what specific behavioural tasks can tell us about specific neural mechanisms. Brain Research Bulletin. - Abstract
Easton, A, Webster, LAD & Eacott, MJ (2012). The episodic nature of episodic-like memories. Learning & Memory 19(4): 146-150. - Abstract
Easton, A., Child, S. & Lopez-Crespo, G. (2011). Differential outcomes aid the formation of categorical relationships between stimuli. Behavioural Brain Research 222(1): 270-273. - Abstract
Easton, A., Fitchett, A., Eacott, M.J. & Baxter, M.G. (2011). Medial septal cholinergic neurons are necessary for context-place memory but not episodic-like memory. Hippocampus 21(9): 1021-1027. - Abstract
Eacott, MJ & Easton, A (2010). Episodic memory in animals: Remembering which occasion. Neuropsychologia 48(8): 2273-2280. - Abstract