This is her most immediately visible cue, recognizable when nothing else is.
In Experiment 1, (1) a less visible cue was weakly masked by the onsets of competing placeholders or (2) a better visible cue was not masked because it was presented in isolation.
The cue session was performed to test the swimming speed and visual ability using the visible platform, elevated 1 cm above the water and its position was clearly indicated by a visible cue (black flag).
On test sessions, the escape platform was located in a fixed position (NE quadrant, 22 cm away from the wall), and had a 10 cm height visible cue (black flag) to indicate its location.
A visible cue (black foam cube) was placed on top of the platform.
This change in shape is an additional highly visible cue that the data has exceeded this threshold.
To facilitate the use of extra-maze cues for spatial orientation, we placed several objects close to the maze (of course, the experimentator is already a very visible cue in him/herself).
A cued (visible) platform task, where mice learn to find the platform with a visible cue (such as a flag), is usually carried out as a control experiment to rule out factors that might affect results for reasons not involving visuospatial integration.
