Table 1.
The list of synonyms used in the current paper, as well as the summary of parameters and search strategies which can be measured in the BM task
| Synonyms | ✓ Escape box—safe shelter, goal box, target hole, tunnel |
| ✓ Habituation phase—shaping trial | |
| ✓ Acquisition phase—learning phase, training phase | |
| ✓ Probe trial—retention test, transfer test, retrieval | |
| Escape latency | ✓ Primary—time (s) needed to find and enter the escape tunnel—with head alone*,# |
| ✓ Total—time (s) needed to find and enter the escape tunnel—with whole body# | |
| Error | ✓ Reference—animal makes a nose and head deflection into a non-escape hole# |
| ✓ Working—animal makes a nose and head deflection into a non-escape hole already visited during the same trial# | |
| ✓ Perseverative—search of the same hole without searching another hole in between | |
| ✓ Semi-quantitative—for an animal who did not escape the maze within a given trial’s time limit | |
| ✓ Primary—a nose and head deflection into a non-escape hole made by an animal before entering the escape tunnel with its head*, # | |
| ✓ Total—a nose and head deflection into a non-escape hole made by an animal before entering the escape tunnel with whole body# | |
| ✓ Hole deviation score—the number of holes between the first hole visited and the escape box | |
| Path lengths | ✓ Primary—animal path lengths (in cm) to reach a target hole with its head# |
| ✓ Total—animal path lengths (in cm) to reach a target hole with its whole body# | |
| ✓ Peripheral—animal path lengths within 20 cm of the maze edge (in cm) (depending on the size of the apparatus) | |
| ✓ Central—animal path lengths within a 40-cm radius from the center of the maze (in cm) (depending on the size of the apparatus) | |
| Search strategy | ✓ Direct (Spatial)—moving directly to the target hole or to 1–2 adjacent hole(s) before visiting the target# |
| ✓ Serial—the first visit to the target hole preceded by visiting at least two adjacent holes (but not adjacent to target hole) in serial manner, in clockwise or counter-clockwise direction# | |
| ✓ Mixed (random)—hole searches separated by crossing through the center of the maze or unorganized search# | |
| Running speed | The average speed (cm s−1) of an animal during the trial# |
*The critical measures proposed by O’Leary and Brown (2013)
#The most frequently measured parameters in the literature