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Table 2 Comparison between Morris Water Maze and Radial Arm Maze [41, 56, 73, 89, 181]

From: The impact of flavonoids on spatial memory in rodents: from behaviour to underlying hippocampal mechanisms

Factors

MWM

RAM

Spatial memory assessed

Short-term working memory

Short-term working and long-term reference memory

Speed of learning

Rapid

Slow

Motivation

Aversive

Appetitive

Type of search

Free

Constrained

Nature of locomotion

Swimming

Walking

Anxiety/stress levels

High levels

Low levels

Search strategies

Easier to detect

Harder to detect

Olfactory Information

Absent

More likely to be present

Likelihood of using additional mechanisms (other than spatial) to solve the task

Less likely

More likely