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Barnes maze
used in studying spatial memory in the mouse. The mouse is put in the center
of a wooden platform. Because mice do not like open spaces they try to find
some way to move out of it. The only way they can escape from the exposed
space is to find the one hole out of 40 that leads to an escape hatch.
In our work with mice we have focused on memory for
extrapersonal space as a model of explicit memory, because spatial memory is
well represented in rodents and has been particularly well studied.
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