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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Neurosci. 2012 Jun;126(3):371–380. doi: 10.1037/a0028453

TABLE 2.

Tasks that can be used to evaluate behavioral phenotypes in mice

Attribute Event-Based Knowledge-Based Rule-Based
Spatial
  • Metric processing

  • Topological processing

  • Magnitude estimation

  • Delay match to place with variable interference

  • Biconditional discrimination

  • Delay match to place with variable cues

  • Declarative sequence learning

  • Cheeseboard

  • Covert attention tasks

Temporal
  • Trace conditioning

  • Temporal ordering

  • Sequence learning

  • Sequence completion

  • Duration discrimination

  • 5 choice serial reaction time

  • Peak interval timing

  • Time left task

Sensory Perceptual
  • Delay match to sample with variable interference

  • Biconditional discrimination

Response
  • Ladder walking tasks

  • Acquisition of skilled reaching

  • Working memory for motor movements

  • Delay match to direction

  • Direction discrimination

  • Nondeclarative sequence learning

  • Reversal learning

  • Probabilistic reversal learning

  • Operant conditioning

  • Stop signal task

  • Serial reversal learning

Affect
  • Reward contrast with variable reward value

  • Classical conditioning

  • Trace conditioning

  • Conditioned preference

  • Anticipatory contrast

  • Operant conditioning

  • Gambling Task

  • Latent inhibition

Specific cross-domain tasks important for murine research into neurodevelopmental disorders
Executive Function
  • Contextually cued biconditional discrimination

  • 5 choice serial reaction time task

  • Operant conditioning

  • Covert attention tasks

  • Reversal learning

  • Probabilistic (80/20) reversal learning

  • Serial reversal learning

  • Stop signal task

  • Gambling task

  • Latent inhibition

Social
  • Social transmission of food preference

  • Social novelty detection

Proto- Language
  • Spectrographic analysis of ultrasonic vocalizations