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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