Tatiana Avila
Groups STEM Summer Research Program
Major: Human Biology
Mentor: Dylan Layfield
Rearing in the Morris water maze is unquantified and its relationship to learning not fully understood. We tested the hypothesis that rearing would decrease with exposure to the maze and memory performance. To address this question, we trained a cohort of rats on the Morris water maze and quantified the amount of times rearing occurred and recorded the time to platform.We found the majority of rearing events occurred during early stages of learning and that this decreased rapidly over the course of learning. We also found that there is a correlation between the number of rearing events and time to platform. These results support the hypothesis that rearing would decrease over time and have (an inverse?) relationship with spatial memory.
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