CHAMBERS AND COMPONENTS FOR RATS

Easy-Install System for Rat Touch Screen Systems
Model 80604-EI

The Easy-install was developed for the Bussey-Saksida Touch Screen Systems due to the large number of cables and connections that these systems require.

Visual Discrimination Mask for Rats
Model 80604-M1

A two image mask insert for Model 80604 Touch Chambers

PAL & Visual Discrimination Mask for Rats
Model 80604-M2

A three image mask insert for Model 80604 Touch Chambers.

TUNL and Location Discrimination Mask for Rats
Model 80604-M3

A 2 x 7 mask insert for the Model 80604 Rat Touch Chambers.

5-CSRT Mask for Rats
Model 80604-M4

A five image mask insert for Model 80604 Chambers

Autoshaping Mask for Rats
Model 80604-M5

A two image mask insert for Model 80604 Touch Chambers.

Camera, filtered and focused for IR light
Model 80600-CAM

View animal performance in light or dark. Recommended for all Bussey-Saksida Chambers. Improve visability in 5/9 Hole and Modular Test Chambers.

Quad Processor/Video Splitter
Model 80600-QPV

Use with 80600-CAM to view four test chambers on a single screen. Monitor not included.

Quad Video Processor
Model 80600-QVI

Use with 80600-CAM to view four test chambers on a single screen. Monitor not included.

Controller PC - Touch Screen Chambers
Model 88530

A complete control PC with interface card and UPDD Drivers for up to four Bussey-Saksida Touch Chambers.

ABET II Software for Touch Screen
Model 89505

Operant monitoring and control software for use with the Touch Screen modular hardware.

Whisker Multimedia
Model 80698-1

An operating system designed to control image presentation and touch screen input from multiple screens.

Two-choice Visual Discrimination Reversal for Rats
Model 89540-R

The task involves learning that one of two shapes displayed simultaneously on the screen is correct. Touching the correct stimuli will be rewarded by delivery of food to the reward tray.

Paired-Associate Learning Task - PAL - for Rats
Model 89541-R

In humans this task has proved to be highly effective for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease. In the PAL task for rodents, rats learn and remember which of three objects goes in which of three spatial locations.

Visuomotor Conditional Learning - VMCL - for Rats
Model 89542-R

This is a habit or stimulus-response task in which the rodent learns a rule of the type If shape A presented, respond to the left location; if shape B is presented, respond to the right location.

5-choice Serial Reaction Time Task - 5CSRT - for Rats
Model 89543-R

This task requires the rodent to respond to a brief visual stimulus presented randomly in one of 5 locations. This task in rodents is sensitive to cortical manipulations, especially those involving prefrontal cortex, and is highly dependent on cholinergic transmission.

Autoshaping for Rats
Model 89544-R

The task measures a Pavlovian response to the screen. This is a very rapidly administered test of simple classical conditioning that is dependent on a reward system centred on the ventral striatum.

Trial-unique Nonmatching-to-Location Task - TUNL - for Rats
Model 89545-R

TUNL can be thought of as a version of delayed nonmatching-to-place, usually carried out in a conventional Skinner box with levers, in which the rats are presented with a sample location and, following a delay, are presented with two choice locations.

Location Discrimination - LD - for Rats
Model 89546-R

The rodents are required to discriminate between two white squares on the screen. Responses to squares on one side of the screen will be rewarded, while responses on the other side of the screen will be punished with a time out period.