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Chapters
- 00:05Title
- 01:00Preparing the Headpiece
- 02:50Surgery
- 07:03Habituating the Mouse to the Cylinder
- 08:23Results: Conditioned Response to Paired and Unpaired Stimulus
- 09:24Conclusion
The preparation presented here for whisker-signaled eyeblink conditioning in head-fixed mice precisely stimulates specific whiskers while allowing mice to ambulate on a cylindrical treadmill. A whisker stimulation conditioned stimulus (CS) paired with a periorbital shock unconditioned stimulus (US) results in reliable associative learning on this apparatus.
