Straight alley
Apparatus
Our straight alley is composed of:
- an aluminum structure
- a corridor
- a departure and an ending box
- a tight network of infrared beams, to locate precisely the animal
- an automatic rewarding system (pellets or liquid)
- an automatic system of intracerebral drug injection in the “self-administration” version
![Lateral view of our straight alley](https://www.imetronic.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/allee-droite-1-300x104.png)
Software
Our software:
- displays graphs in real time
- records all movements detected by the infrared beams
- scores latency, hesitations, time to go, speed,…
- controls the distribution of the reward, and the injection in our “self-administration” version
- manages the experiments per sessions
The data are classified and exported into a Microsoft Excel file.