Jeff:
That is a very cool maze. It looks like a rotated Galton quincunx. How
was it supposed to work?
Ken
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On 1/16/2012 12:39 PM, Jeffry Ricker wrote:
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
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