Thursday, August 3, 2017

Week 9 - 7/31/2017

Week 9

This week the main focus was finishing up cohort 4 NICHEs on the attention task and also getting the Templeton project rats acclimated to the attention task program. I detailed in my week 4 blog the different levels of the attention task after acclimation. However, before that the rat has to go through training sessions and the A Shape program.

For the training sessions, the rat is simply put in the box and sugar pellets are dispensed into the food tray. For the first training session, it lasts about 30 minutes. The second training session is a little bit quicker and lasts about 20 minutes. This allows the rats to understand that they are supposed to be trying to get sugar pellets from the food tray. Once the rats have completed those two training sessions, they move on to the A Shape program and have to complete it 5 times.


On Friday, we went to Duke's main campus to see some of the other undergraduate interns at the lab present what they have been working on this summer. We also stopped by the main building for the Duke University Institute for Brain Sciences. It was a fun experience to see other science facilities on Duke's campus.

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