Results of experimenter handling on exploratory measures in the eight arm radial maze.

For both handling methods, mean ± SEM are shown. Time spent in arms is presented as proportion of trial duration. Higher positive arm score indicates mice spent more time in positive arms compared to negative arms, higher reference arm score indicates mice spent more time in reference arms compared to ambiguous arms, and a higher near positive arm score means more time spent in near positive versus near negative arms. Number of all arms entered is presented as counts and arm entries to reference and ambiguous as proportion of all arms entered.
Results of experimenter handling on exploratory measures in the eight arm radial maze.