The videos

Each page has the full script, chapters and a shot list, so you can read ahead of the films.

• Morris water maze: How does a pool of cloudy water tell us whether a rat has a map in its head?
• Virtual Morris water maze: Can we put a person in the same test we give a rat, without the water?
• Radial arm maze: How do we tell working memory from reference memory in one test?
• Open field test: What can an empty box tell us about anxiety and movement?
• T-maze: How does one left-or-right choice reveal memory?
• Barnes maze and other HVS-tracked mazes: What if you want a spatial test without swimming?
• Probe trial: What happens when we take the platform away, and why is that the real memory test?
• Thigmotaxis measure: Why does an animal hug the wall, and why does that matter for your memory data?
• Search strategy analysis: Two animals reach the platform in the same time. How can one have learned it and the other not?
• Y-maze: How does a three-armed maze reveal working memory in a few minutes?
• Gallagher proximity measure: Why is the average distance from the goal such a powerful memory score?
• Cumulative search error: How do we score a search fairly when every swim starts from a different place?
• Reversal learning test: Can an animal let go of an old answer and learn a new one?
• Novel object recognition test: How do we know a mouse remembers an object it saw yesterday?
• Elevated plus maze: How does a raised cross of four arms measure anxiety-like behaviour?
• Atlantis platform: What if the platform only rose when the animal searched in the right place?
• Escape latency: Why does a short swim time not always mean a good memory?
• Path length and swim speed: How do we tell a shorter search from a faster swim?
• Place versus cued trial: How do we know an animal is using a map, and not just swimming towards something it can see?
• Barnes maze escape error: If a mouse finds the escape hole quickly, how do we know it did not just check every hole on the way?
• Spatial object recognition: How do we test whether an animal remembers where an object was, not just what it looked like?
• Spontaneous alternation: Why does a rodent so often turn into the arm it did not visit last time?
• Zone and quadrant analysis: Once we divide the pool into regions, what do those regions actually tell us?
• Heading angle: If we only watch the first seconds of a swim, what can the animal's direction tell us?