Instruments: Shuttle Boxes for Active & Passive Avoidance

The instrument was purchased from Med Associates and provides the ideal environment to carry out conditioned reflexes (Active and Passive Avoidance) in learning and memory studies. The shuttle box task is a test that has been utilized to study conditioning in non-human animals for sixty years. Shuttle box tests of avoidance and escape from electrical shock are used in contemporary research because these behavioral assays are efficient and standardized methods for testing learning and memory processes. Two types of procedures are generally used, these being active and passive avoidance procedures.