Hi all, I never used rats: I decided as an undergraduate that I never would work with animals that had teeth.
So instead, I ran toothless animals through mazes ... fruit flies (genus: Drosophila). My dissertation advisor was Jerry Hirsch, one of the pioneers of behavior genetics. Sometime around 1959 or 1960 (if I remember correctly), he developed these mazes in order to measure the responses of fruit flies to gravity (geotaxis) and, sometime later, light (phototaxis). I just searched Google images and was amazed to discover that there is not one good picture of a geotaxis maze. The best I could come up with is here: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2494/3931247773_02bf3ea852.jpg This maze does not look at all like the typical mazes. I'll have to post some good images of the mazes on one of my web sites, I guess. I was very happy to finally get one of the geotaxis mazes I used in graduate school, which was given to me by Hirsch's last graduate student a couple of years ago. Ah, the good old days, although at the time, I thought that the terror would never end.... Best, Jeff -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D. SCC: Professor of Psychology MCCCD: General Studies Faculty Representative PSY 101 Website: http://sccpsy101.wordpress.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scottsdale Community College 9000 E. Chaparral Road Scottsdale, AZ 85256-2626 Office: SB-123 Phone: (480) 423-6213 Fax: (480) 423-6298 --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=15357 or send a blank email to leave-15357-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
