A water maze is a device used to test an animal's memory in which the alleys are filled with water, providing a motivation to escape.
[4] Water mazes have been used to test discrimination learning[2] and spatial learning abilities.
[4] The Morris water navigation task is often called a "water maze task", but this is erroneous as it is not, properly speaking, a maze.
[1] The development of these mazes has aided research into, for example, hippocampal synaptic plasticity, NMDA receptor function, and looking into neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease.
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