NBLab has set up several cognitive, emotional and social tasks to investigate the neurobiological substrate of these processes. The following tasks are routinely used in the lab:
Anxiety
Open-Field test
Elevated-Plus maze
Light-dark test
Object recognition tasks
Novel object
Object-to-place
Temporal order
Working memory
- Delayed alternation task in the T-maze
- Spontaneous alternation
Contextual fear conditioning
- long-term fear memory
- contextual fear memory extinction
- context discrimination
Social behavior
3-chamber sociability test
Social interaction test
Reference memory
Left-right discrimination in the T-maze
Pre-pulse inhibition
Cognitive flexibility
- Attention set-shifting task
- Reversal learning