Maze | Task/paradigm | Memory assessed (short/long term) | Recorded parameters | Reference |
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Eight-arm radial maze | Olton Task | ST working memory | Number of re-entries in arms in the first 8 choices (WME); Total choices required to visit all 8 arms: Time taken to complete the trial | [154] |
Delayed non-matching to sample | ST working memory | Entries into the rewarded arms in the sample phase and Re-entries into arms previously visited within the choice phase (WME) | [139] | |
Working and reference memory task | ST working memory and LT reference memory | Number of entries in arms that were never baited (RME); Number of re-entries into arms within a trial (WME) | [98] | |
Delayed matching to sample | ST working memory | Entries into no rewarded arms and Re-entries into arms previously visited within the choice phase (WME) | [53] | |
Morris water maze | Classic task | Acquisition | Escape Latency compared across days | [136] |
Spatial probe trial | ST or LT memory | Time that the rat spent in the quadrant that previously contained the platform | [136] | |
Reversal learning paradigm | Learning flexibility/capacity and ST working memory | Escape latency, swim speed, distance travelled, quadrant spent time- comparison between trials in each day. | [10] | |
Radial arm water maze | Working and reference memory task | ST working memory and LT reference memory | Latency to find platform, Swim speed, Distance travelled, WME (re-entries within a trial) and RME (entries in arms that do not contain the platform) | [189] |
Reversal learning paradigm | Learning flexibility and ST working memory | Latency to find platform, swim speed, Distance travelled, working memory errors (re-entries within a trial)—comparison between trials in each day | [189] | |
“Continuous paradigm” | ST working memory | Number of errors in the first 8 choices (WME), total choices required to visit all eight channels, time taken to complete the trial | [142] | |
T/Y- maze | Continuous alternation task | ST working memory | Failure to alternate between the two arms during a fixed period of time (WME) | [46] |
Delayed non-matching to sample | ST working memory | Number of times the animal fails to alternate from sample phase to choice phase (WME) | ||
Delayed matching to sample | ST working memory | Number of times the animal fails to choose the arm that has been always rewarded (WME) |