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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Yashina K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6669324 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
iScience 20190715
Animals use salient cues to navigate in their environment, but their specific cognitive strategies are largely unknown. We developed a conditioned place avoidance paradigm to discover whether and how zebrafish form spatial memories. In less than an hour, juvenile zebrafish, as young as 3 weeks, learned to avoid the arm of a Y-maze that was cued with a mild electric shock. Interestingly, individual fish solved this task in different ways: by staying in the safe center of the maze or by preference ...[more]