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40100 - Atlantis Platforms for Water Maze
The Ugo Basile Atlantis Platforms can be lifted and lowered automatically by hydraulic force. They are made of clear Perspex and being operated solesy by hydraulic force, no electricity is present inside the pool. All the electrical parts of the mechanism are safely located outside the pool.
Up to 4 platforms are driven by the same controller (or by PC) so that the platforms do not need to be repositioned within the pool during the course of the experiment.
No more hands in the water!
The Ugo Basile Atlantis Platforms can be lifted and lowered automatically by hydraulic force. They are made of clear Perspex and being operated solesy by hydraulic force, no electricity is present inside the pool. All the electrical parts of the mechanism are safely located outside the pool.
Up to 4 platforms are driven by the same controller (or by PC) so that the platforms do not need to be repositioned within the pool during the course of the experiment.
No more hands in the water!
Despite its efficacy, the Morris Water Maze task has some limitations, which relate to the fact that the platforms normally used have fixed height and cannot be raised during Probe tests.
Probe tests run with the use of a lift platform give more reliable indications on the presence of true spatial learning.
Features and Benefits
Specifications
Accessories
Bibliography
| FEATURE |
BENEFIT |
| 4 platforms driven by 1 controller |
No need to move the platform across pool quadrants |
| Totally hydraulic mechanism |
No wires in the water |
| TTL input for feedback-control by any video-tracking |
Avoid response extinction in probe tests |
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4 independent channels, with manual or TTL mode
| Platform vertical range |
25-35 cm |
| Speed of the platforms |
10 mm/sec |
| Platform diameter |
10 cm |
| Pools |
| Tubings |
| Parallel Cable with BNC output |
| PCMCIA - Parallel Port |
| ANY - maze Software |
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- R.I.W. Spooner et al.: ”The Atlantis Platform: A New Design and Further Developments of Buresova's On-demand Platform for the Water Maze” Learn. Mem.: 1: 203-211, 1994
- G. Riedel et al.: “Reversible Neural Inactivation Reveals Hippocampal Participation in Several Memory processes” Nature Neurosc.: 2 (10): 898-905, 1999
- I.Q. Wihshaw et al.: “The Behavior of the Laboratory Rat: A Handbook with Tests” Oxford Univ. Press, USA; 1, 2004
