Figure 3
From: A generalised framework for detailed classification of swimming paths inside the Morris Water Maze
Full swimming path standard metrics for the stressed (black) and control (white) animal groups. All the animals were tested for a set of 12 trials divided in 3 sessions (days). Bars represent the first and third quartiles of the data; the grey line that splits the bars represents the median, crosses are the outliers and whiskers indicate the minimum and the maximum values. The Friedman test p-value over the trials is shown on the top right of each plot. Stressed animals find the platform as fast as the control group (escape latency, p-value = 0.154, Q = 2.030, k = 2) even though they run faster (path length, p-value = 2 × 10−8, Q = 31.510, k = 2) and sweep (on average) longer swimming paths (speed, p-value = 0.002, Q = 9.836, k = 2) within the trials than the control group.
