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Guinea pig is a rodent Effects of human contact and intra-specific social learning
on tonic immobility in guinea pigs ?

15/01/18

Things you learned

- Effect of human contact and social learning on the TI responses is evaluated.

- Experimenter contact decrease duration of the TI response in the guinea pigs.
- Cohabitation with non-fearful animals reduces the TI duration in guinea pigs.
- Human interaction can reduce experimenter fear in guinea pigs.
- Guinea pigs learn not to fear the experimenter by cohabiting with habituated animals.

Sources
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https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/
S0168159117300382
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Effect of human on guinea pig Functional connectivity MRI tracks memory

networks after maze learning in rodents?

16/01/18

Things you learned

- Learning induced plasticity can be detected by resting state connectivity in sedated rodent brain.
- After water maze learning, correlations with hippocampal CA3 increased in septum, thalamus,
cingulate cortex, etc.
- The connectivity then reorganized toward the cortex 7 days after training.
- Learning enhanced connectivity in the default mode network.

Sources:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/
S1053811915007223
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Learning in guinea pig Age-associated learning and memory deficits in

two mouse versions of the stone T-maze ?

17/01/18

Things you learned

- Younger mice making fewer errors

Sources:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/
S0197458011005215
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Younger mice making fewer errors Stability of the guinea pigs personality – cognition –
linkage over time?

18/01/18

Things you learned

- Learning performance is temporally stable over four learning tasks in guinea pigs.
- The linkage between learning performance and sociopositive behaviour is stable over time.
- Learning performance is not predicted by boldness or aggressiveness.
- Learning performance did not improve over the tasks, i.e. each task was learned anew.

Sources:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/
S0376635716301322
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Guinea pig memory over time General information about guinea pig?

19/01/18

Things you learned

- Guinea pigs have wide bodies with short limbs

- They have a short, flat nose, laterally placed eyes, and hairless external pinnae
- Guinea pigs are best housed in well-ventilated, wire-sided cages with solid bottoms
- Heavy food containers are recommended to make dumping of the receptacle more difficult. All food containers should
be easy to disinfect and should be cleaned regularly, because guinea pigs have a habit of soiling their food bowls.

Sources:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/
B9781416001195500202
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There are many type of mazes What are example of maze types?

22/01/18

Things you learned

- T maze
- Y maze
- 8 arms maze
- Normal maze

Sources:

https://mazeengineers.com/portfolio/
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Guinea pig is easily fear Sign of fear and anxiety in guinea pig?

02/02/18

Things you learned

- Freezing - Shiver
- Fidgeting - Shrieking
- Teeth Chattering - Whinging
- Hissing - Chirping

Sources:

https://www.edmodo.com/file/view-office-
online?id=815736eac2178740c6ff5519cfd73cc7