Rat cNOR-OL Experiment Chamber Context Change Floors

Object-Place-Context (OPC) – Measure of Episodic memory

Adding these floor options to the Rat cNOR-OL Experiment and Holding Chamber, along with the Rat cNOR-OL Experiment Chamber Sliding Floor, adds another context option to the chamber. The rats have to remember the object, the place they last saw it and on what context floor it was on. This is a measure of episodic memory. The Easton Lab have further investigated rat strategy in doing the test – Read More

Five context change floors of different textures for Rat cNOR-OL Experiment chamber. They consist of lightweight materials and have a magnetic mounting for the CI.80514R-4 sliding floor. The context change floors, when used with the Novel Object Recognition and Object Location enable the chamber to be used for the “Object-Place-Context (OPC)” Task for Episodic Memory.

Tactile textures include smooth, textured, ribbed rubber, pattern rubber, and holes. It has been shown that when the rodent feels the tactile floor under its feet, it was a more powerful context change than any visual stimulus. (Dalrymple-Alford)