Figure 7
From: Automation at the service of the study of executive functions in preclinical models
Schematic representation of the five stages of the (a) manual and (b) automated ASST testing phase (first column), with the dimension that was relevant (second column) and the stimulus that was rewarded (third and seventh columns) in each stage (brown and blue are used for the manual and automated versions respectively). In each stage, mice were presented with either Discrimination 1 (fourth and eighth column) or Discrimination 2 (fifth and ninth columns), according to a pseudo-random sequence. The side where each pair of stimuli was presented (left and right bowls in the manual task, left and right nose-poke holes in the automated task) were counterbalanced through a pseudo-random sequence. In the sixth and tenth columns we reported the range of days in which each stage of the task was completed.
