Water maze swim path analysis based on tracking coordinates

Detailed classification of swimming paths in the Morris Water Maze: multiple strategies within one trial

“…One valid criticism of the classification methods of swimming paths is that the choice of measures can be very subjective. In his work, Korz 23 makes this point and provides an alternative, bottom-up, approach for the analysis of swimming paths. His method is based on normalising the trajectories by reducing them to 50 equidistant points and using the actual coordinates of the points to compare trajectories.…”

Within-Trial Persistence of Learned Behavior as a Dissociable Behavioral Component in Hippocampus-Dependent Memory Tasks: A Potential Postlearning Role of Immature Neurons in the Adult Dentate Gyrus

“…In typical studies, it is rare for these measurements to be considered separately in memory retrieval tests, and rather expected to be strongly correlated with each other. Although previous studies separated different behavioral components in a single type of tasks ( Dalm et al, 2000 ; Korz, 2006 ; Maei et al, 2009 ), it is rare to make an attempt to find such dissociable behavioral components that are common across different types of hippocampus-dependent memory tasks with different behavioral and cognitive demands. We have found the dissociation consistently in the three hippocampus-dependent tasks.…”

Rtrack: a software package for reproducible automated water maze analysis

“…Automated classification of tracking data (typically collected via image analysis of video recordings) has enabled more complex definitions of learning strategies and several algorithms have been developed over the years. 5,[8][9][10][11][12] However, restrictions on the available software tools, such as accessibility (e.g. expensive and/or difficult to use), compatibility (e.g.…”