Pisula Wojciech, Modlinska Klaudia
Institute of Psychology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
Bio Protoc. 2020 Jan 20;10(2):e3485. doi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3485.
Research on exploratory behavior plays a key part in behavioral science. Studying exploratory behavior of laboratory rodents may provide important data about many developmental and neurobiological processes occurring in animal ontogenesis. The proposed protocol for measuring the free (low-stress) exploration behavior in rats is straightforward, requires minimal resources and very little animal training. It can therefore be broadly applied to studying animal cognition, animal behavior in general, the aging processes, and several animal models of various phenomena.
探索行为的研究在行为科学中起着关键作用。研究实验啮齿动物的探索行为可能会提供有关动物个体发育过程中发生的许多发育和神经生物学过程的重要数据。所提出的测量大鼠自由（低压力）探索行为的方案简单明了，所需资源最少，且几乎不需要对动物进行训练。因此，它可广泛应用于研究动物认知、一般动物行为、衰老过程以及各种现象的几种动物模型。
