The following behavioral tests can be conducted at the behavioral unit with all the necessary equipment for data acquisition and analyses.

• Movement analysis with the rotarod
• Anxiety tests (open-field test, light-dark test, elevated plus maze)
• Memory (mostly hippocampal-dependent tasks)
  • Novel object recognition,
  • Object-to-place recognition
  • Left-right discrimination
  • Contextual fear conditioning
  • Water maze

• Memory (amygdala-dependent tasks)
  • Auditory fear conditioning
  • Conditioned taste aversion

• Memory (prefrontal cortex-dependent)
  • Spontaneous alternation in the Y-maze
  • Temporal order object recognition
  • Delayed alternation in the T-maze
  • Forced delayed non-match-to sample (DNMS) task

• Cognitive flexibility
  • Fear memory extinction
  • Reversal learning
  • Attention set-shifting

• Social function
  • 3-chamber sociability task
  • Homecage social interaction test

• Assess sensory processing - Automated (cortical-dependent tasks)
  • Visual Object recognition
  • Multisensory (visual-olfactory-auditory) integration
  • Olfactory discrimination
  • Visual discrimination
  • Auditory discrimination
  • Virtual & Real Navigation