Avoidance learning is part of an organism’s survival instinct, as it develops a response to evade a hostile stimulus before it happens. After experiencing an unpleasant stimulus, organisms start to ...

This is the evaluation of memory and learning function by Passive avoidance test.The passive avoidance apparatus consists of a light and a dark compartment with a hole, across which mice can pass.

In the passive avoidance test, at the learning trial (day 0), mice of all groups entered the dark compartment, and there were no significant differences among the animals. However, in the testing ...