Modular Maze System: The Free Maze
What makes the Free Maze unique is that each part is reconfigurable, allowing you to transition seamlessly between DIY modular maze configurations and giving you the ultimate flexibility.
- Design your modular maze to your specifications.
- Easily reconfigure mazes for a variety of different tasks. Examples include the t-maze, w-maze, plus maze, radial arm maze, and figure 8 maze.
- Build mazes of increased complexity by simply adding more corridors.
With the Free Maze system for mice and rats, researchers can design unique modular mazes to their specifications. The Free Maze comprises individual corridor components that can be easily reconfigured into a variety of different maze types. Build upon mazes by simply adding more corridors. Mazes can be assembled with increasing complexity depending on the experimenter’s goal.
Features
All parts are completely reconfigurable allowing researchers to create several mazes in one.
Take advantage of our built-in automation. Infrared (IR) beams triggered by the animal control the opening and closing of maze doors.
Build your own maze from the ground up completely unique to your research needs. All components are sold separately.
Publications
Hoshino, S., Takahashi, R., Mieno, K., Tamatsu, Y., Azechi, H., Ide, K., & Takahashi, S. (2020). The Reconfigurable Maze Provides Flexible, Scalable, Reproducible, and Repeatable Tests. Iscience, 23(1), 100787.
Parts and Accessories
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Door Motor Unit, for Rat
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Door Motor Unit, for Mouse
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Treadmill Corridor
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I/O Box
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Pellet Dish Unit
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Pellet Dispenser
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Fixed Wall
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Photo-Beam Sensor
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End Left Turn Corridor
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Straight Corridor
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End Right Turn Corridor
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End T Corridor
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Center T Corridor
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Center Cross Corridor
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Operant Task Software: OperantTaskStudio
Blog Entries
Modular Maze System, the Free Maze Setup
We show you how the Free Maze is quite easy to configure. The orientation and position can be easily changed to give you different designs.
Running Multiple Behavioral Tests?
The Free Maze, our reconfigurable modular maze, has you covered! With the Free Maze, all components are reconfigurable, meaning you can easily disassemble and reassemble your maze with unique specifications.
Hippocampal Place Cells: Remembering events in space and time.
Episodic memory refers to the collection of past personal experiences that occurred at a particular time and place, a highly effective process for future planning.
Part IV – We Visit Doshisha University in Kyoto
While in Kyoto, I traveled to Doshisha University to visit the lab of Dr. Takahashi, who worked with O’Hara to design the Free Maze, a reconfigurable maze for learning and memory tests.
Modular Maze System, the Free Maze Setup
We show you how the Free Maze is quite easy to configure. The orientation and position can be easily changed to give you different designs.
Running Multiple Behavioral Tests?
The Free Maze, our reconfigurable modular maze, has you covered! With the Free Maze, all components are reconfigurable, meaning you can easily disassemble and reassemble your maze with unique specifications.
Hippocampal Place Cells: Remembering events in space and time.
Episodic memory refers to the collection of past personal experiences that occurred at a particular time and place, a highly effective process for future planning.
Part IV – We Visit Doshisha University in Kyoto
While in Kyoto, I traveled to Doshisha University to visit the lab of Dr. Takahashi, who worked with O’Hara to design the Free Maze, a reconfigurable maze for learning and memory tests.
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