UC Davis MIND Institute, Crawley |
Yes 6 objects in use across studies, object pairs counterbalanced |
30 minutes/day,1–4 days, varies by strain |
1 hour or 30 minutes for short-term memory, 24 hours for long-term memory |
Repeated Measures ANOVA; One Way ANOVA with Tukey’s posthoc for preference and discrimination indices; paired t-test for sniff times within-group |
Gompers et al. (2017); Silverman et al. (2013); Stoppel et al. (2017); Yang et al. (2015)
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Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Gulinello |
Yes, 2 objects used, counterbalanced, validated |
Usually 6 minutes, sometimes no habituation |
1 hour-24 hours |
ANOVA, Chi Square % preference and pass/fail rate |
Dai et al. (2010); Vijayanathan et al. (2011)
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UW Madison Waisman Center, Mitchell/Chang |
Yes, 4 objects used, counterbalanced |
Mice pre-handled by experimenter for at least 3 days, habituation to chamber is one 6-minute session |
3 minutes |
ANOVA |
Hullinger et al. (2016) |
UPenn, CHOP O’Brien/Abel |
Yes |
5 min/day, 3–5 days, varies by strain |
1 hour for short-term memory, 24 hours for long-term memory |
Two-way ANOVA for gene effect, drug effect, and gene × drug interaction, Tukey post- hoc |
Oliveira et al. (2010); Patel et al. (2014)
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Children’s National Medical Center, Wang/Corbin |
Yes |
15 minutes/day, 4 consecutive days |
15 minutes, 6-hour interval |
Two-Way Repeated Measures ANOVA, Newman-Keuls post-hoc |
(Wang et al., 2011) |
Baylor College of Medicine, Veeraragavan/Samaco |
Yes |
5 minutes/day,1–4 days |
24 hours |
One-Way ANOVA with LSD or Tukey’s posthoc, paired t-test |
Lu et al. (2017) |
Boston Children’s Hospital, Andrews/Fagiolini |
Yes |
Typically 5 minutes on day prior to first trial of same objects, sometimes no habituation |
10 minutes, 24 hours, depending on mouse model |
ANOVA, genotype × object between/within |
Arque et al. (2008) |
University of Washington, Cole/Burbacher |
Yes |
Habituation to room > 1 week; pre-handling 3–5 days; habituation to chamber 15–30 minutes, 1 day prior to testing. |
1 hour, 48 hours |
One-Way ANOVA or Two-Way ANOVA with Bonferroni’s post hoc |
Choi et al. (2017); Pan et al. (2012); Wang et al. (2014)
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