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Sense of Orientation in Mice - Experiments in an Elevated Labyrinth   [Title Translation]

Orientierungsvermögen bei Mäusen - Versuche im Hochlabyrinth   [Other Title]
Year of origin: 1951
Genre: Documentary Film
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Credits
Production company: Otto Koehler (Freiburg i. Br.)
  Universität Freiburg, Zoologisches Institut (Freiburg i. Br.)
First released by: IWF (Göttingen)
Distributor: IWF (Göttingen)
Author: Otto Koehler


Keywords: experimentelle Verhaltensforschung, Hausmaus, Hausmaus, Labyrinthversuch, Lernen, Mammalia, Maus, Mus Musculus, Orientierungsvermögen, Rodentia, experimental behaviour research, house mouse, house mouse, labyrinth, learning, Mammalia, mouse, orientation, Rodentia
The first scene in the film shows a mouse learning a labyrinth route with the aid of three `skeleton-keys` : drop shutters, scent trails trails, and echo effects. As each of these was removed, the mouse had to learn anew. In scene 2 (after 3 months) is covers the route without a mistake, all three aids having been removed. When angles (scene 3 and 4), path lengths (scene 5), and direction of turns (mirror-invertede, sence 6) were changed, both blind and seeing mice (subsequent scene) covered the route nearly without error straightaway, without having to learn anew : in the training labyrinth they had learned the "Gestalt" of theright way as transposable as, for instance, the letters of our alphabet.

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