A still of the Barnes maze this video shows. The screen reads: Which hole leads out?.
The Barnes maze: one way out
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Show the round table with 20 holes, and say how a rodent learns which one leads out.
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What to do and say
A sample script of about 55 words. Say it your own way.
- 0:00
DoShow the table from its product page: a bright, raised round table with 20 holes around the edge.
SayTwenty holes. Only one leads out. Which one?
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DoSay that only one hole leads to a dark escape box, and the animal finds it from cues around the room.
SayThis is the Barnes maze. The table is bright and open, so the animal looks for the dark escape box, using cues around the room.
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DoSay what researchers measure, then show the maze's page on conductscience.com.
SayOver days it gets there faster, with fewer wrong holes. It tests spatial memory on dry land. See it at conductscience.com.
Posting it yourself? Say that ConductScience paid you, in the video or the caption, and use the platform's paid partnership label if it has one.
What viewers should learn
Rodents learn which hole around the table leads to the escape box. Faster escapes and fewer wrong holes over days show spatial learning.
Classic study: Barnes, 1979.
Read the product page before you film
Start from its page: Barnes maze on conductscience.com. It has the sizes, what researchers measure and photos of the apparatus. Anyone can open it.
Show the photos on its page or a diagram you draw. Film a maze only where you have permission. Never show real participants, children, patients, private records or unpublished results. Get permission before you film at your school or workplace, or name it. The handbook has the rest.