Figure 5.

Strategy choice by Creb^CamKCre7 and Creb^NesCre mice in the water maze. The path recordings on the left exemplify the six exclusive categories of swim patterns that have been defined to classify the gradual improvement of spatial precision and efficiency during the learning process (from bottom to top). Note that these categories describe the successive stages of water maze learning occurring “on average,” across a group of mice. Thus, not every category will be seen during an individual learning trial. DF, Degrees of freedom.