FEAR CONDITIONING SYSTEM


FEAR CONDITIONING SYSTEM

The ANY-maze controlled Fear Conditioning system automates the two most common fear conditioning paradigms:

Contextual Fear Conditioning

Acoustically-Cued Fear Conditioning

ANY-maze controls the shocker and the sound generator and automatically detects periods when the animal freezes, reporting information such as:

Total freezing time

Number of freezing episodes

Duration of freeing episodes

Latency times between stimuli and freezing events

Fear conditioning system

USB camera

Sound generator

Shocker

Animal enclosure with electrified grid floor

Sound-attenuating chamber with light and fan

Context kit (to alter chamber’s colour and texture)

Works in total darkness